Article: Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi'ite Islam.(Book review)

doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001649

Chosen Among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi'ite Islam. By Mary F. Thurlkill. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. xii + 211 pp. $27.00 cloth.

Crossing the topics of religious studies, gender, and hagiography, Thurlkill juxtaposes the images of Mary and Fatima as they were constructed by late antique and medieval thinkers for various theological and political purposes. In addition to hagiography and the writings of the church fathers, Thurlkill discusses how Merovingian authors used the sacralized legend of the Virgin Mary to emphasize conservative gender ideals even as they ...

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