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 historical figures that we know more about than we do about Muhammad. The ...

Dozens of Pakistani lawmakers rumbled through the streets of Islamabad on Thursday with one voice: Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. The “blasphemers” in ...

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 ...

In November, an adjunct art history instructor was fired from Hamline University, a private liberal arts college in Minnesota. The month before, during an online lecture on Islamic art in the ...

GARLAND, Texas-- Two gunmen were killed Sunday after opening fire on a security officer outside a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of Prophet Muhammad in Texas, and a bomb squad was called ...

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 ...

Jerry Delemus, a Rochester man, is planning a 'Draw Muhammad' art contest.He wants people to draw the prophet Muhammad. Depicting him is considered sacrilegious by Muslims."I don't care if it's stick ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – All depictions of Muhammad – or so we hear – are now and have always been forbidden in Islam. Art’s history disputes this. True, that strict taboo today is honored now by almost all ...

Last night, two men were killed and one man was injured at the American Freedom Defense Initiative's "Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest" in the Dallas/Forth Worth area. Clockwise from top: an security ...

According to NBC News, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (a group run by Pamela Geller) organized the event, awarding a prize of $10,000 to Muhammad cartoonists and inviting Geert Wilders––a ...