ABSTRACT
Gender analysis in the infancy story of Maryam is clearly relevant. From the beginning, we hear of the story of the mother of Maryam, the wife of 'Imran, acting as an initiator of the genealogy of Maryam. Gender, as a category for analysis in the Qur'an, questions any gender differentiation, dualisms, or inequality on the basis of sexual differences between women and men. The story starts with the narrative verse scenes, introduced in the beginning with the main theme of the chosenness of two Biblical figures, Adam and Nuh, and two families, the family of Ibrahim and the family of 'Imran, over the rest of the world. Their chosenness is based on genealogy as much as on their history as pious people. Elements of intertextuality between the infancy story of Maryam in the Qur'an and the Protevangelium are given without presupposing whether or not the Qur'an depended on the Protevangelium.
