{"id":29095,"date":"2024-12-24T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/i-grew-up-muslim-in-a-catholic-community-and-mary-represented-common-ground-zeyneb-sayilgan\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:31:10","slug":"i-grew-up-muslim-in-a-catholic-community-and-mary-represented-common-ground-zeyneb-sayilgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/i-grew-up-muslim-in-a-catholic-community-and-mary-represented-common-ground-zeyneb-sayilgan\/","title":{"rendered":"I grew up Muslim in a Catholic community \u2013 and Mary represented common ground | Zeyneb Say\u0131lgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some theological differences, both denominations look to her as an inspiration for cultivating compassion and hope<\/p>\n<p>I had just finished teaching a class on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/icjs.org\/events\/maryam-the-muslim-mary\/\">the Muslim Mary<\/a>\u201d. Many non-Muslims who attended were puzzled to find out that Muslims had a connection with Mary at all, and had no knowledge of how important she is to our belief and practice. This came as no surprise. Half of Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2021\/09\/01\/muslims-are-a-growing-presence-in-u-s-but-still-face-negative-views-from-the-public\/#:~:text=Though%20many%20Americans%20have%20negative,nothing%20at%20all%E2%80%9D%20about%20Islam.\">report<\/a> they know \u201cnot much\u201d or \u201cnothing at all\u201d about Islam.<\/p>\n<p>As a Muslim girl growing up in the overwhelmingly Catholic state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, Mary was a constant presence in my life. Her images and statues, dotted across my city, smiled at me as I walked to school. At Christmas time, I joined with my classmates to sing songs such as <em>Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Zeyneb Say\u0131lgan is the Muslim Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/24\/muslim-catholic-mary-jesus-islam-christianity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some theological differences, both denominations look to her as an inspiration for cultivating compassion and hope I had just finished teaching a class on \u201cthe Muslim Mary\u201d. Many non-Muslims who attended were puzzled to find out that Muslims had a connection with Mary at all, and had no knowledge of how important she is &#8230; <a title=\"I grew up Muslim in a Catholic community \u2013 and Mary represented common ground | Zeyneb Say\u0131lgan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/i-grew-up-muslim-in-a-catholic-community-and-mary-represented-common-ground-zeyneb-sayilgan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I grew up Muslim in a Catholic community \u2013 and Mary represented common ground | Zeyneb Say\u0131lgan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}