CAIRO - It's not mentioned in Islam's holy book, the Quran, but the religion's ban on depicting the Prophet Muhammad - even favorably - has run firm through the centuries. Religious traditions built ...

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 ...

(RNS) – In his new book, “Muhammad: 40 Introductions,” Michael Muhammad Knight gives a crash course in the multiplicity of ways Muslims have historically imagined and remembered the Prophet Muhammad ...

The principle implied by the expression ‘ladies first’ in modern times had already been established in Islam at the very ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Many Christians and other non-Muslims are surprised to learn that the teachings of Islam include information about Jesus. Zakiyyah Shakoor, a former teacher and an active member ...

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Every year, Muslims around the world celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (S), the Messenger of God sent to confirm the essential teachings of monotheism. Born on the 17th day of the Islamic ...

There were more protests Wednesday over the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. In Afghanistan, police shot four protesters to death as a crowd tried to march on a U.S. military base there ...