This study will investigate the portrayal of Maryam, mother of `Isa (Mary mother of Jesus) and will question whether the language of the Qur'an and its meanings offer a concept of the feminine which confines or emancipates women. Maryam is chosen from among other qur'anic women …
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The dissertation offers a cross-cultural comparison of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in early Medieval Christianity and Fatima, Muhammad's daughter, in Shi'ite Islam. It focuses on theological treatises, hagiography, and material culture. The dissertation demonstrates that Medieval…
Devotion to the Virgin flourished in the centuries following the turn of the millenium. One way in which this is visible is through the numerous Marian miracle narratives composed in the period. Previous scholars have looked at these texts as part of a twelfth-century renaissanc…
Global mediation, communication, and technology facilitate pilgrimage places with porous boundaries, and the dynamics of porousness are complex and varied. Three Marian, Catholic pilgrimage places demonstrate the potential for variation in porous boundaries: Chartres cathedral; …