Abstract
After briefly describing the principal non-Muslim and Muslim approaches to the Qur'anic material about Jesus and Mary, the author explores four aspects of this material which have been relatively neglected. In the first section he shows how the representation of Jesus and Mary is integrated in the structure of the Qur'anic discourse. In the second section he lists the similarities between Muhammad and the Qur'anic Jesus. In the third and fourth sections he draws on the Qur'ān and on Islamic tradition in order to show that both 'Aisha and Muhammad had a number of things in common with Mary. In the concluding discussion he states that the Qur'anic story of Jesus and Mary serves to authenticate the prophetic ministry of Muhammad and then makes some more specific remarks about the observations listed in the four main sections.
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