Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islam. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Depiction of Muhammad by Muslims

Link: http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_full/

Islamic Depictions of Mohammed in Full


Medieval Muslim artists often created paintings and illuminated manuscripts depicting Mohammed in full. Several examples are presented here. Other artists of the era drew Mohammed, but left his face blank so as to technically comply with a sporadically enforced Islamic ban on depicting the Prophet; these faceless images are shown in the second section of the Archive.