Mary as the Melting of Spiritual Significations: The Case of Rûzbehân Baqlî (d. 1209)
Mary as the Melting of Spiritual Significations: The Case of Rûzbehân Baqlî (d. 1209)

Summary/Abstract: Mary is generally viewed as an object of devotion, a model for education, religion, morality, the archetype of what femininity should be, a religious, social, and political paradigm, something that goes far beyond the mere limits of the feminine. Her motherhood is not only what is used to limit the feminine in the strict patriarchal order of societies; it shapes masculinity, as the dreamed mother of every boy — never forgetting that she is the mother of a boy and has no daughter — shaping his masculinity, as well as his global relations with the feminine.

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