(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 ...

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 ...

The art history instructor was diligent, empathetic and sensitive. She gave plenty of warning, including in her class syllabus, letting her students know ahead of time that she planned to show them ...

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 ...

The St. Paul university found itself at the center of a painful debate over academic freedom and religious tolerance after school leaders decided not to renew the art history instructor’s contract.

A story of how the Prophet Muhammad's (sa) courage and an unwavering belief in God destroyed the mighty Persian Emperor ...

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 ...

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 art history instructor was diligent, empathetic and sensitive. She gave plenty of warning, including in her class syllabus, letting her students know ahead of time that she planned to show them ...