Lailat Al Miraj, known as the “Night of Ascension,” is an Islamic holy day that commemorates the journey the Prophet Muhammad ...
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 ...
While the Buraq is not explicitly mentioned in the Quran, descriptions of it can be found in Ibn Ishaq’s 18th-century ...
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Shab-e-Meraj, one of the most sacred nights in Islam, is being observed across the country with deep ...
On the Last Hajj -- called Farewell Pilgrimage -- Prophet Muhammad stood among 100,000 faithful followers on Mount Arafat making his last will and testament. His message was being echoed to the entire ...
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. By ...
A Feb. 9 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a man delivering a lecture with foreboding music playing in the background. “Very few people realize it was the Catholics that started Islam.
(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 film — about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad — sparked headlines in the U.K. after it was pulled from cinemas following several protests by Muslim groups. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent ...
The organization says the Minnesota teacher should be thanked for educating Muslim and non-Muslim students in "a critically empathetic manner.” The prophet Muhammad in the cave of Hira, page from a ...
The artworks are included in the current show, 'Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds.' “Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds,” installation view at the Asia Society and Museum, New York.
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 ...