Charlie Hebdo: Does Islam forbid images of the Prophet?

  Since the appalling attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday, I’ve heard many people—Muslim and non-Muslim—confidently assert that depicting the Prophet in Islam is strictly forbidden. Although it’s true there is a strong iconoclastic streak in the religion, there is also a significant alternative tradition of representing the Prophet in Islamic history books and devotional manuals—a tradition not especially well known in the West because Muslim clergy have often condemned or tried to suppress it.

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