One of the two visual texts of the prophet she selected was “ A Compendium of Chronicles,” attributed to Rashid-al-Din (1247-1318). The academic rationale for including this work seems sound.

Across time and cultures, the adage ‘silence is golden’ has come to embody the virtue of restraint in speech. It perhaps ...

Muslim students express concerns over course content ST. PAUL, Minn. – A battle over free speech, academic freedom and claims of Islamophobia at Hamline University is getting national attention ...

Hamline University in Minnesota has fired adjunct art professor Erika Lopez Prater for showing 14th-century paintings of the Prophet Muhammad in class. The University asserts that the professor’s act ...

(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.

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.

“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 ...

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

In December, Hamline University spurred outrage after the college fired an art history professor for showing a 14th-century painting of the prophet Muhammad in an Islamic art class.

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 ...

Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the prophet Muhammad wearing a turban with a fuse-lit bomb incensed Muslims around the world, provoked a free-speech debate and sparked ...