She was dismissed in 2022 for showing two historical Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad in her global survey of art history class, which some students described as disrespectful and ...

After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, Hamline University officials said the incident was Islamophobic. But many scholars say the work is a masterpiece. Officials at ...

Christiane Gruber, a professor of Islamic art at the University of Michigan, wrote that historic representations of the Prophet Muhammad — his face sometimes veiled, sometimes not — can be ...

She gave plenty of warning, including in her class syllabus, letting her students know ahead of time that she planned to show them ancient depictions of the prophet Muhammad as part of her global ...

But I believe that, in the context of an art history classroom, showing an Islamic representation of the Prophet Muhammad, a painting that was done to honor Muhammad and depict an important ...

Islamic art has therefore tended to be abstract or decorative ... Of course, there is the prohibition on images of Muhammad. But one cartoon, showing the Prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with ...

(RNS) — In early October, Erika López Prater, a professor at Hamline University in Minnesota, showed her online Islamic art history class an image of the Prophet Muhammad. A Muslim student in ...

A Hamline University instructor’s classroom use of ancient Islamic art depicting the Prophet Muhammad has sparked a controversy over Islamophobia and academic freedom. For many Muslims ...

In October, López Prater showed a 14th century painting depicting the prophet Muhammad in a lesson on Islamic art. For many Muslims, visual depictions of Muhammad violate their faith, which ...

The prophet Muhammad in the cave of Hira ... Depictions of Muhammad’s face are widely considered blasphemous and much of Islamic art, therefore, consists of geometric design and calligraphy.

He points to a quote from the Catholic Church and what he calls a comic book called “The Prophet ... Yaqeen Institute, an Islamic research organization, writes that Muhammad began receiving ...

Over 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for Hajj, a vital Islamic practice. Despite intense heat, ...