The prohibition stems from the belief that an image of Muhammad could lead to worshipping the prophet rather than the God he served. There are, however, a range of beliefs.

Free Speech Hamline University Lecturer "Is Fired Over a Medieval Painting of the Prophet Muhammad" Eugene Volokh | 12.26.2022 8:01 AM ...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyA painting? That’s it?Without intending disrespect or blasphemy, as a practicing Muslim I’d like to think that’s how the Prophet Muhammad ...

On October 6, an art history professor at Hamline University, a liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota, showed students a 14th-century painting that depicts the prophet Muhammad receiving ...

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 ...

An adjunct art history professor showed her class a painting of the Prophet Muhammad — the revered, central religious figure of the Islamic faith — and said she later lost her job teaching at ...

CHURCH STRETTON, England-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--A rare 18th century painting of the footprints of the prophet Muhammad will take centre stage at British auction house Mullock’s sale on the 21st May.

“The Prophet Muhammad at the Gates of Hell,” a painting in a manuscript copy of al-Sara’i’s “Nahj al-Faradis” (”Paths of Paradise”) circa 1465, is on loan from The David Collection ...

(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.

Islamic Aniconism The core of the Hamline-Prater controversy is two paintings of the Prophet Muhammad that the instructor brought to the class to show that Islamic art is “not monolithic.” The ...

Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, said she knew that many Muslims have deeply held religious beliefs that prohibit depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. So ...

Re “She Showed a Prophet’s Image, and Divided a College Campus” (front page, Jan. 8): After a student complained that her art history professor’s showing of a 14th-century image of the ...