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This is interesting article that was actually written just recently by a professor of Islamic Studies over at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that makes a case for the permissibility of images of the Prophet Muhammad, which also interacts with some of the questions Nrg is asking.
A quick excerpt:
| quote: | When the Danish cartoon controversies broke out in 2005, many pundits--and some Muslims--stated that Muslims were offended because Muslims have never physically depicted the Prophet.
That is actually not the case, and marks yet another example of what is at worst an acute sense of religious amnesia, and at best a distortion of the actual history of Islamic practices: Over the last thousand years, Muslims in India, Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia and Turkey did have a rich courtly tradition of depicting the various prophets, including Prophet Muhammad, in miniatures. |
Why Islam does (not) ban images of the Prophet
Naturally, this doesn't reflect the position of all Muslims, but it is certainly worth considering as an alternative perspective on these related matters.
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