The instructor was let go. (RNS) — A Minnesota university art history instructor who showed a treasured 14th-century painting depicting the Prophet Muhammad’s call to prophesy was dismissed ...

In the syllabus, she warned that images of holy figures, including the Prophet Muhammad and the Buddha, would be shown in the course. She asked students to contact her with any concerns ...

But the presentation of two of the images, pages from illustrated manuscripts that depict the Prophet Muhammad, have ignited debate. Those images were blurred out on the museum’s online tour of ...

A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi (Biography of the Prophet), Istanbul, Ottoman lands, 1595-96.

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 ...

Aram Wedatalla, a Hamline University senior and the president of Muslim Student Association, speaks during a news conference in Minneapolis on Jan. 11. (Kerem Yücel/AP) Hamline University in ...

Attorneys for an adjunct art professor said Tuesday she is suing the Minnesota university that dismissed her after a Muslim student objected to depictions of the prophet Muhammad in a global art ...

An adjunct professor teaching an art history class showed an image of the Prophet Muhammad, upsetting some Muslim students on campus. "It hurts and it breaks my heart to stand here to tell people ...

Ibn Ishaq, the earliest biographer of Prophet Muhammad, relates an amazing story about Rabbi Mukhayriq, a wealthy and learned leader of the tribe of Tha’labah, a Jewish tribe allied with one of ...

An excellent account of just this kind of condemnation is found in the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad, when he was called upon to judge between a Jew and a Muslim in a conflict laden situation.

“Islam developed as a tradition centered on the teachings of the seventh-century Arabian prophet Muhammad,” Ali said. “Historians using centuries’ worth of textual and other evidence from ...