![]() According to the Quran, divine grace surrounded Mary from birth, and, as a young woman, she received a message from God through the archangel Gabriel that God had chosen her, purified her and preferred her above all "the women of the worlds". Many women are mentioned in the Quran, but only one is named: Mary, who appears more times in the Quran than in the Bible, with a whole chapter, Surah Maryam, named after her. Girl Reciting the Qurān ( Kuran Okuyan Kız), a 1880 painting by the Ottoman polymath Osman Hamdi Bey, whose works often showed women engaged in educational activities.
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