The Asia Society said the two images should not have been blurred, though it recognizes the need to display them in context since many Muslims object to depictions of Muhammad as sacrilegious.

NEW YORK — Vivid illustrations of the underworld are currently on view at the Asia Society, where in a new exhibition the dead dance among the flames in illustrated manuscripts and other ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday demanded that Turkish authorities release four staff members of the ...

A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, Hamline University officials said the incident was Islamophobic.

Clashes erupt in Istanbul as police fire rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protestors demonstrating against Turkish ...

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 ...

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.

An art professor has sued a university in Minnesota for firing her after she showed students a 14th-century painting depicting the prophet Muhammad.

Muhammad made a final pilgrimage to Mecca in early 632. He was in poor health but made it back to Medina. He died there on June 8, 632, in the embrace of Aisha, his favorite wife.

Turkish police secure the street in front of the headquarters of LeMan magazine after hundreds of people attacked the building due to an alleged cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad that was published ...