Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi ...

(RNS) — An instructor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, showed a 14th-century painting of Muhammad. A Muslim student objected. The instructor was let go. (RNS) — A Minnesota university art ...

A practicing Sufi, poet, and speaker, Kahn tells the little known stories of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad in this brief book. Usually ignored or used as salacious fodder, the stories are pieced ...

An exhibition tracing the architectural history of the Prophet Mohammed’s (PBUH) mosque has opened in Madinah in Saudi Arabia ...

Dr. Samuel Johnson once declared: “There are two objects of curiosity, the Christian world and the Mohammedan world; all the rest may be considered as barbarous.” Since Dr. Johnson’s time we have ...

PARIS (KABC) -- Wednesday's deadly attack centered on Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper that caricatured Muhammad. It's the latest example of controversy surrounding depictions of the prophet. In ...

"Prophet Muhammad Preaching" (c. late 16th century), Folio from a Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul of Lami'i Chelebi. The text to which this detached page once belonged, entitled "The Murder of the House of the ...

The observance of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, called Mawlid an-Nabi, occurs Nov. 9 on the Islamic lunar calendar. This week’s clergy discuss why Muslims worldwide venerate, and some respectfully ...

The painting that appears to be at the center of the controversy (from Rashid al-Din Ṭabib, Jami' al-Tawarikh, in the University of Edinburgh Library) Michigan art history Prof. Christiane Gruber ...

No one knows what the Prophet Muhammad looks like. From historical sources, we can reasonably surmise he was an Arab male, but that’s such a broad category as to say almost nothing about his physical ...