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Intro -- Contents -- Note on Transcription -- Introduction -- I. Mary in the Christian Tradition -- 1. Mary in the Bible -- a) Mary in the Corpus Paulinum and the Gospel of Mark -- b) Mary in the Gospel of Matthew -- c) Mary in the Gospel of Luke -- d) Mary in the Gospel of John -- e) Summary -- 2. Mary in Patristics -- a) The Protevangelium of James -- b) Mary as the New Eve -- c) Mary as the archetype of the Church -- d) Mary's purity and lack of sin -- e) Virginity and labour pains -- 3. Dogmatic Precepts of Mariology -- a) Perpetual virginity -- b) Mary as the new human being freed from original sin -- c) Other dogmatic precepts -- 4. Mary in the Political Theology of Late Antiquity -- a) The political situation during the emergence of the Qurʼan -- b) The religious propaganda of Heraclius -- c) Mary as military commander -- d) Jewish apocalyptic counter-images -- II. Mary in the Qur'an -- 1. The Surah Maryam -- a) Zechariah and John the Baptist (1-15) -- b) Mary's withdrawal and the proclamation of Jesus's birth (16-21) -- c) Pregnancy and birth (22-26) -- d) Mary's conflicts and Jesus as the bringer of peace -- e) Mary as the mother of Jesus and as a prophet? -- f) Summary -- 2. The Surah Āl ʿImrān -- a) On the genealogy of Mary -- b) Mary's birth and childhood - the connection with Zechariah -- c) The first Annunciation scene -- d) The second Annunciation scene -- e) Other verses from the Medinan period prior to the confrontation with Byzantium -- f) Summary -- 3. The Surah al-Māʼida -- a) Criticism of the political Mariology of Byzantium -- b) Criticism of the imperial downplaying of Mary's humanity -- c) On the significance of Mary's eating -- d) Limits and opportunities of the presentation of Mary in the Surah al-Māʼida -- III. Mary in the Context of Islamic Systematic Theology -- 1. The Qurʼanic Mary as an Impulse for Prophetology.

a) The portrayal of Mary as an impulse for Islamic prophetology -- b) On the meaning of vulnerability in the relationship with God -- c) Was Mary a prophet? -- 2. The Qurʼanic Mary as a Stimulus to a Traditional Understanding of God's Actions -- a) Distinctions in the perception of miracles in classical scholastic theology -- b) On the crisis of the classical perception of the concept of miracles in the modern period and its consequences for the distinctions drawn by classical theology -- c) A reappraisal of our understanding of miracles through the Qurʼanic Mary -- d) Mary and Muhammad -- 3. Mary as a Figure of Emancipation -- a) The story of Mary in the Qurʼan as a stimulus for greater gender equality -- b) Mary as a boundary breaker -- c) Mary as a stumbling-block and an incitement to subversion -- 4. Mary as an Aesthetic Role Model -- a) An invitation to visibly reserve something for God alone -- b) An invitation to a culture of disruption and renunciation -- 5. In Dialogue with Christianity -- a) Obstacles to dialogue -- b) Between appropriation and syncretism -- c) A warning against projecting -- IV. Implications for Comparative Theology -- 1. Christian Perspectives -- a) Intensification: freedom through devotion -- b) Recovery: Mary as a prophet and as a protagonist of anti-imperial theology -- c) Reinterpretation: Mary as a transgressor of boundaries -- d) Appropriation: from a Christian mascot to a typological figure binding together religions -- e) Rectification: rehabilitation of a Mariology based on prerogatives -- f) Reaffirmation: Mary's lowliness as a pointer to God's kenosis -- 2. Islamic Perspectives -- a) Intensification: on the beauty and the political significance of Mary -- b) Recovery: Muhammad's special connection with Mary.

c) Reinterpretation: on the dialectical interconnectedness of 'Yes' and 'No' before God - clarity in the process -- d) Appropriation: Mary and God's unqualified gift of grace -- e) Rectification: Mary as a warning to exercise care in passing theological judgement on others -- f) Reaffirmation: radicalism and the Golden Mean -- Bibliography -- Index.