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Maryam bint Imran (Arabic: مَرْيَم بِنْت عِمْرَان, romanized: Maryam bint ʿImrān, lit. 'Mary, daughter of Imran') holds a singularly exalted place in Islam. [1] The Qur'an refers to her seventy times and explicitly identifies her as the greatest woman to have ever lived. Moreover, she is the only woman named in the Quran.
Al Imran (Arabic: آل عِمْرَانَ, āl ʿimrān; meaning: The Family of Imran [1] [2]) is the third chapter of the Quran with two hundred verses . This chapter is named after the family of Imran (Joachim), which includes Imran, Saint Anne (wife of Imran), Mary, and Jesus. [citation needed]
The Islamic faith echoed some strands within the Christian tradition that Mary (or Maryam) was a literal virgin when Jesus was conceived. The most detailed account of the annunciation and birth of Jesus is provided in Surah 3 ( Al Imran ) and 19 ( Maryam ) of the Quran, where the story is narrated that God (Allah) sent an angel to announce that ...
Maryam [1] (Arabic: مريم, Maryam; Arabic cognate of 'Mary') is the 19th chapter of the Qur'an with 98 verses (āyāt). The 114 chapters in the Quran are roughly ordered by size. The 114 chapters in the Quran are roughly ordered by size.
Maryam or Mariam is the Aramaic form of the biblical name Miriam (the name of the prophetess Miriam, the sister of Moses).It is notably the name of Mary the mother of Jesus. [1] [2] [3] The spelling in the Semitic abjads is mrym (Hebrew מרים, Aramaic ܡܪܝܡ, Arabic مريم), which may be vowelized in a number of ways (Meriem, Miryam, Miriyam, Mirijam, Marium, Maryam, Mariyam, Marijam ...
[29] Muhammad's wives play a prominent role in Islam and Muslim practices; "their reception of specific divine guidances, occasioned by their proximity to Muhammad, endows them with special dignity." [7] They form the basis for the status of women in Islam and are thus important for gender debates and study.
Outside Christianity, the Islamic view of the Virgin Mary, known as Maryam in Arabic, is that she was an extremely pious and chaste woman who miraculously gave birth while still a virgin to the prophet Jesus, known in Arabic as Isa. Mary is the only woman specifically named in the Qur'an.
There are a variety of titles used to refer to the penultimate prophet of Islam, Isa ibn Maryam , in the Quran. Islamic scholars emphasize the need for Muslims to follow the name of Isa (Jesus), whether spoken or written, with the honorific phrase alayhi al-salām (Arabic: عليه السلام), which means peace be upon him. Isa is mentioned ...