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In Shia Islam, however, images of Muhammad are quite common nowadays even though historically, Shia scholars opposed such depictions. [20] [a] Still, many Muslims who take a stricter view of the supplemental traditions will sometimes challenge any depiction of Muhammad, including those created and published by non-Muslims. [22]
[34] [35] A curiosity in Iran is an Orientalist photography supposed to represent Muhammad as a young boy. [36] The Grand Ayatollah Sistani of Najaf in Iraq has given a fatwā declaring the depiction of Muhammad, the prophets and other holy characters, permissible if it is made with the utmost respect. [37]
The depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (as with other visual depictions) is a controversial topic both within and outside of Islam. Although the Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad, there are a few hadith (supplemental teachings) which have explicitly prohibited Muslims from creating visual depictions of figures.
Muslim students took offense and an art history class was labeled Islamophobic. But many Muslims and scholars consider the artworks Islamophilic instead.
The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images is a book by Christiane Gruber. Published in 2018 by Indiana University Press , it is about the history of aniconism in Islam and depictions of Muhammad in Islamic art.
He argues that both the Sunni schools of law and the Shia jurisprudence alike prohibit the figurative depiction of Muhammad, [227] and that occurrence of Muhammadin Arabic and Ottoman Turkish arts, flourishing during the Ilkhanate (1256–1353), Timurid (1370–1506), and Safavid (1501–1722) periods, are due to a secular attitude of the time ...
Story at a glance A Muslim civil rights and advocacy group is saying that a professor showing a portrait of the Prophet Muhammad during an art history class, which resulted in her being fired from ...
The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis, Danish: Muhammed-krisen) [1] began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005 depicting Muhammad, the founder of Islam, in what it said was a response to the debate over criticism of Islam and self-censorship.