ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of key concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The form study of the narrative section of Surat Maryam has shown some level of inter-textuality on a textual level between this Meccan sura and the Gospel according to Luke, and on the sub-textual level, with the pre-Islamic panegyrical ode. The Qur'an evoked the memory of Maryam's delivery under a noble tree with the rivulet underneath to identify with the female essentialist role, thus, indirectly stating that fecundity and motherhood is sacred to the Arabs. This is not the only Qur'anic addition to the Lukan, Pseudo-Matthew and the Protevangelium Marian themes. Modern literary theories were utilized according to the structure and content of the texts: form study, stylistics, narrative and motif analysis, feminist criticism and readers-response theory. Maryam's prophetic signs exposed by the medieval Andalusian exegetes Ibn? Azm and al-Qur? Ubi, who argued vehemently in support of the receptiveness of women to God's verbal inspiration?.
