Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Mahmoud Ayoub, Redemptive Suffer-

ing in Islam: A Study of the Devotional Aspects of Ashura 

in Twelver Shi’ism (The Hague: Mouton, 1978). Jane D. 

McAuliffe, “Chosen of All Women: Mary and Fatima in 

Qur’anic Exegesis,” Islamochristiana 7 (1981): 19–28; 

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Mary

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Jaroslav Pelikan, “The Heroine of the Qur’an and the 

Black Madonna.” In Mary through the Centuries: Her 

Place in the History of Culture (New Haven, Conn.: 

Yale University Press, 1996); Aliah Schleifer, Mary 

the Blessed Virgin of Islam (Louisville, Ky.: Fons Vitae, 

1998); Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Y. Haddad, “The Virgin 

Mary in Islamic Tradition and Commentary.” Moslem 

World 79:3–4 (July–October 1989): 161–187; Barbara F. 

Stowasser, Women in the Qur’an, Traditions and Interpre-

tation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); W. 

M. Thackston, trans. The Tales of the Prophets of al-Kisa’i

(Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978).