مریم (س)

Hazrat Maryam (PBUH) has a special and privileged position in Islam and Christianity due to her role as the mother of Jesus (PBUH), but in the Quran, apart from being the mother of Jesus (PBUH), this honorable lady had outstanding human qualities and special purity. On the other hand, in the New Testament, her character does not have a very high status and sometimes she has not been confronted with the dignity of an ordinary person. After several centuries, special attention has been paid to him in the church tradition and they have progressed to the point of worshiping him; It seems that in the world of Christianity, after a trivial encounter with this purified personality in the first century, they have taken a step towards an extreme perception of her character and position until she was brought to a position worthy of worship in the following centuries. Using the content analysis method, this research aims to compare the personality and position of Maryam in the Holy Quran, the New Testament and Christian theology to show that the true description of this honorable lady has been made in the Holy Quran. At the same time, we will present a critique of the beliefs of the church tradition about the character and position of Maryam (PBUH).

Soleiman Ali Morad, author of "reconsideration of the image of Maryam in the Qur'an" critically studies the origin of the plot of the story of Mary in the Qur'an. Through delving into the sources of Christian and Greek mythology and matching them with interpretations of the Qur'an and medieval Islamic history books, especially Jahez works, he oncluded that the source of the story of Mary in the Quran is taken from Greek mythology and Christian sources. Then it can be said that Quran is affected by those books. In his view, medieval Muslim commentators without sufficient knowledge about Christian beliefs have interpreted the verses of the story of Maryam .Assessment of these claims revealed that the author of the article by refering to rare sources and without appropriate references for his claims, has made hypotheses and derived incorrect and injustifiable conclusions.