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Document Details : Title: From Billboards to Mosques Maryam Subtitle: Do Muslims Today 'Call on Mary with Devotion'? Author(s): GEORGE-TVRTKOVIĆ, Rita Journal: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Volume: 34 Issue: 2 Date: 2024 Pages: 237-256 DOI: 10.2143/SID.34.2.3293938 Abstract : Section 3 of the conciliar document Nostra Aetate lists beliefs and practices shared by Muslims and Christians such as prayer, fasting, almsgiving, belief in one God, and honoring the Virgin Mary. To underscore this last point, the document adds, 'at times they [Muslims] even call on her with devotion'. While some Islamic scholars take issue with this phrase, arguing that Muslims should invoke no one but God, many ordinary Muslims do frequently (seem to) call on Mary with devotion. This article reconsiders the meaning of 'calling on Mary with devotion' via both traditional and newer examples of Muslim Marian devotion around the globe including: shared shrines like Our Lady of Africa in Algeria; a 'hijabi Mary' highway billboard in Chicago; Lebanon’s Annunciation holiday; mosques named Maryam; and a Muslim scholar’s commissioning of an icon, 'Our Lady of the Qur'an'. |
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