Introduction: discursive spaces for peace -- Peacemaking topoi: cultural Iterations of relational and moral needs -- The power of sweet persuasion: cultural inflections of interpersonal ṣulḥ rhetorics -- We the reconciled: the convergence of ṣulḥ and human rights -- From the Egyptian People's Assembly to the Israeli Knesset: al-Sādāt's Knesset address, ṣulḥ, and diplomacy -- To gather at court: ṣulḥ as rhetorical method -- Conclusion: the gift of possibility
Summary
"Sulh is a centuries-old Arab-Islamic peacemaking practice. Rasha Diab explores the possibilities and limits of the rhetoric of sulh as it is used to resolve interpersonal, communal, and (inter)national conflicts--with a case illustrating each of these domains. The cases range from medieval to contemporary times and are analyzed using both rhetorical and critical discourse analyses"-- Provided by publisher