Trajectos poéticos da imagética mariana no Al Andalus

• Autor(a) principal: Miranda, José Carlos Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Kabalan, Michel, Luís, Mário Helder Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/118290
• topic: Humanidades; Humanities

Among the several motifs used by women who wrote poetry from the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 13th centuries in al-Andalus, Mary the mother of Jesus becomes a main reference. In the exchange of poetic arguments between Walladah and Muhjah bint Attayan, the scene of Mary giving birth next to a palm-tree is explicitly mentioned. This narrative is unknown to the Western culture, although it springs from the Greek and Latin apocrypha Saint-James Proto-Gospel and Pseudo-Matthew. This article proposes to elucidate how these texts relate to each other and to highlight the specificities of the imagistic/imaginary constructs concerning Mary in the Quran, considered in the broader context of a narrative archetype also known to the European culture.