Thesis (M.A.)--Southern California College, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-203).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1992. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-163).

Thesis (D. Min..)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, N.Y., 2008. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 337-339).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-118).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-56).

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This paper examines the anecdotes of ʿAttār’s Mosibat-nāmeh as temporal phenomena from the perspective of a reader moving progressively through the text; it is argued that that these anecdotes do not function primarily as carriers of dogmatic information, but as dynamic rhetorical performances designed to prod their audiences into recommitting to a pious mode of life. First, the article shows how the poem’s frame-tale influences a reader’s experience of the embedded anecdotes by encouraging a sequential mode of consumption and contextualizing the work’s pedagogical aims. Next, it is demonstrated that these anecdotes are bound together through formulae and lexical triggers, producing a paratactic structure reminiscent of oral homiletics. Individual anecdotes aim to unsettle readers’ ossified religious understandings, and together they offer a flexible set of heuristics for pious living. Finally, it is argued that ʿAttār’s intended readers were likely familiar with the mystical principles that underlie his poems; he therefore did not use narratives to provide completely new teachings, but rather to persuade his audience to more fully embody those pious principles to which they were already committed.

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Thesis (DD(Dogm.)--Universiteit van Pretoria, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-312).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Grace Theological Seminary, 1939. / Bibliography: leaves 237-241. Includes index.