A practicing Sufi, poet, and speaker, Kahn tells the little known stories of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad in this brief book. Usually ignored or used as salacious fodder, the stories are pieced ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS (KABC) -- Wednesday's deadly attack centered on Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper that caricatured Muhammad. It's the latest example of controversy surrounding depictions of the prophet. In ...

Many Muslims upset by the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper, argue that the issue is not about free speech but about the insult to a ...

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 ...

Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi has a very special significance in Islam, because on this day the last prophet of Islam, Muhammad Sahib, was born and died. This day is also known as 12 Wafat or Maulid. This time ...