Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently dismissed Erika López Prater, an adjunct faculty member, for showing two historical Islamic paintings of the Prophet Muhammad in her global survey ...

In the wake of last week’s attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which, it is thought, enraged Islamic extremists with its repeated publication of irreverent cartoons featuring Muhammad, ...

No one knows what the Prophet Muhammad looks like. From historical sources, we can reasonably surmise he was an Arab male, but that’s such a broad category as to say almost nothing about his physical ...

Erika López Prater lost her job in 2022 after a Muslim student objected to seeing historic Muhammad artworks in class. The prophet Muhammad in the cave of Hira, page from a Hamla-yi Haidari manuscript ...

After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, Hamline University officials said the incident was Islamophobic. But many scholars say the work is a masterpiece. Officials at Hamline, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — 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 ...

This month, 10 employees of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly, and two police officers were murdered by a band of masked gunmen who shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," as they opened ...

Whether a case of divine intervention or just fortuitous programming, PBS begins airing “The Life of Muhammad,” a three-part explanation of the history of Islam, on Tuesday, the same day Al Jazeera ...

(RNS) Narrated by Somai-born journalist Rageh Omaar, the PBS series "The Life of Muhammad" presents the Muslim prophet in a respectful, positive light, though it doesn’t shirk from the controversies ...

(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.