For most Muslims it's an absolute prohibition - Muhammad, or any of the other prophets of Islam, should not be pictured in any way. Pictures - as well as statues - are thought to encourage the ...

Protests have spread across the Muslim world over the publication in Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The BBC News website looks at why the depictions have caused such offence. What does ...

Many Muslims believe drawing pictures of the Prophet Muhammad is seen as a form of idolatry, which is viewed as a sin in Islam. "Drawing the picture or the image, not only Prophet Mohammed but all ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. Pictures are of two kinds: 1.

Taking over from the organization's founder, Elijah Muhammad helmed the Nation of Islam during a period of limited growth. Malcolm X's arrival in 1952 ushered in a time of dramatically increased ...

In Detroit, the Christian references were to be replaced by quotations from the Quran, Islam’s holy book, after Elijah was first exposed to Fard Muhammad’s teaching in the fall of 1931.

When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, transformed the NOI into the “World Community of al-Islam in the West.” He downplayed previous teachings about Black supremacy ...

For most Muslims it's an absolute prohibition - Muhammad, or any of the other prophets of Islam, should not be pictured in any way. Pictures - as well as statues - are thought to encourage the ...

Taking over from the organization's founder, Elijah Muhammad helmed the Nation of Islam during a period of limited growth. Malcolm X's arrival in 1952 ushered in a time of dramatically increased ...