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 ...

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.

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(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 ...

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He was a husband, a businessman, a grandfather, a warrior, a judge, a politician, and a religious leader. For many of the 1.8 billion Muslims around the world, Muhammad ibn Abdullah (died, 632 CE) is ...

Dreams have long been a source of fascination and interpretation across cultures, but in the context of Islam, they hold a particularly significant place. The experience of dreaming of the Prophet ...

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 ...

The freedom of speech does not extend to include defaming the prophet of Islam, the European Court of Human rights ruled Thursday. The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled that insulting Islamic prophet ...

This month, 10 employees of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly, and two police officers were murdered by a band of masked gunmen who shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," as they opened ...