Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In my courses on early Islam and the life of Muhammad, I teach to the amazement of my students that there are few pre-modern ...

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 ...

The art history instructor was diligent, empathetic and sensitive. She gave plenty of warning, including in her class syllabus, letting her students know ahead of time that she planned to show them ...

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has removed from its website the image of an artwork depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the Guardian reports. Earlier this month, the V&A claimed that its ...

"Prophet Muhammad Preaching" (c. late 16th century), Folio from a Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul of Lami'i Chelebi. The text to which this detached page once belonged, entitled "The Murder of the House of the ...

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 ...

(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. (RNS) — A Minnesota university art ...

The painting that appears to be at the center of the controversy (from Rashid al-Din Ṭabib, Jami' al-Tawarikh, in the University of Edinburgh Library) Michigan art history Prof. Christiane Gruber ...

Hamline University campus in St. Paul on Dec. 30, 2022. After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, school officials said the incident was Islamophobic. But many scholars say the ...

A Minnesota university’s decision to dismiss a professor for including depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a world art course has put the small, private school at the center of a debate over how to ...