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L’éloquence arabe médiévale : une approche argumentative*

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L’éloquence arabe médiévale : une approche

argumentative*

Dans l’ouvrage célèbre Kitâb Al-Bayân wa-altabyîn,

un des premiers textes de la rhétorique arabe

médiévale, et plus précisément dans la troisième partie

intitulée Kitâb Al-‘asâ ("Le Livre du Bâton"), le grand

prosateur arabe des VIII-IX siècle (II-III siècle de

l’Hégire) Jâhiz (868), prend part au débat qui oppose

partisans des Shu‘ûbites et partisans des Arabes à propos

de l’évaluation de l’apport respectif des Perses et des

Arabes à l’art oratoire.

La question argumentative principale suivante : Où

trouve-t-on les fondements de la rhétorique ? structure

ce débat et met ainsi en balance deux rhétoriques : la

rhétorique de l’art cultivé, rhétorique laborieuse des

Persans, et la rhétorique spontanée, rhétorique presque

miraculeuse des Arabes.

Afin de voir comment se construisent les réponses

divergentes à cette question, une étude argumentative des

deux principales thèses en

présence est menée dans cet

article.

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