Similarly, Islamic art studies 1,400 years of creativity, images, objects and spaces of historical and contemporary communities of North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, South Asia and beyond.

As it happens, the images she planned to show are hundreds of years old and considered a masterpieces of Islamic art. The class took place online on Oct. 6, and again, any student who did not wish ...

As readers of the blog may know, Hamline University declined to renew Erica López Prater's instructor contract because she displayed Islamic Art containing images of Mohammed in her World Art ...

A colleague from another university suggested López Prater should reach out to Christiane Gruber, a leading expert on Islamic art, who had used the images in her own classes. López Prater had ...

Islamic art historians such as my colleagues and me, both Muslim and non-Muslim, study and teach these images regularly. They form part of the standard survey of Islamic art, which includes ...

“So much of Islamic art is related to the sourcing, preparation, serving and consumption of food,” notes Linda Komaroff, curator of “Dining with the Sultan,” a new exhibition at the Los ...

It is an act of insult.” Hussein said the instructor apparently “chose the most Islamophobic pictures (from) an ocean of Islamic art.” A leading art scholar disputes that. Christiane Gruber ...

Islamic art has therefore tended to be abstract or decorative. Shia Islamic tradition is far less strict on this ban. Reproductions of images of the Prophet, mainly produced in the 7th Century in ...

Hussein previously told the Pioneer Press that Lopez Prater apparently “chose the most Islamophobic pictures (from) an ocean of Islamic art” for her October lesson. Hundreds of academics have ...

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar this November, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), located on an artificial island in the country’s capital Doha, has been given a makeover.

(RNS) — In early October, Erika López Prater, a professor at Hamline University in Minnesota, showed her online Islamic art history class ... it is wrong to display images of Muhammad as ...

A Minnesota liberal arts professor was reportedly fired after Muslim students complained that the instructor showed historic depictions of Muhammad during a class about Islamic art. The ...