Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for The Explainer’s free daily podcast on iTunes. Outrage over a series of Danish cartoons that depict the Prophet Mohammed continues to ...

Over at On Faith, American-Iranian Muslim Omid Safi points out that the idea that Islam forbids depicting the prophet Mohammed is wrong. That is actually not the case, and marks yet another example of ...

LOOK upwards in the magnificent place of worship in Istanbul now known as the Hagia Sophia Museum, and you will see two different ways of approaching the divine, reflecting different phases in the ...

To read Abd-Allah’s full essay “One God, Many Names,” go to the Nawawi Foundation’s Web site, www.nawawi.org; click on “Learning” and then on “Learn More.” An Islamic scholar spoke to a crowd of about ...

Introduction : the need for an ontology of art -- Viewing the face of a God's friend : conceptual and literary premises -- Sufi in the garb of a Yogi : visual and literary articulations of sanctity -- ...