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[quote=Anonymous]I suppose we should be grateful we are not faced with death threats for showing images of Jesus who is also regarded as a prophet in Islam …

[b]Why Are Pictures of Prophet Muhammed Forbidden in Islam?[/b] | Diverse Educators (By British DEI teacher and Muslim)
Idolatry and depictions of the Prophet Mohammed and other prophets are prohibited in Islam as they are ''infallible' and revered figures, and 'according to the Islamic faith […] should not be presented in any manner that might cause disrespect for them.May 17, 2021
https://www.diverseeducators.co.uk/why-are-pictures-of-prophet-muhammed-forbidden-in-islam/

BBC story with link to historic images of the prophet and warning issued at beginning - so please don’t open it if you are Muslim and likely to be offended. 
[b]Have pictures of Muhammad always been forbidden?[/b]

If you set aside for a moment the issue of whether satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad are insulting, there's a separate and complicated debate about whether any depiction - even a respectful one - is forbidden within Islam.

For most Muslims it's an absolute prohibition - Muhammad, or any of the other prophets of Islam, should not be pictured in any way. Pictures - as well as statues - are thought to encourage the worship of idols.

This is uncontroversial in many parts of the Islamic world. Historically, the dominant forms in Islamic art have been geometric, swirling patterns or calligraphic - rather than figurative art.
Muslims point to a verse in the Koran which features Abraham, whom they regard as a prophet:

Many of the images of Muhammad which date from the 1300s were intended only to be viewed privately, to avoid idolatry, says Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic Art at Michigan University. "In some ways they were luxury items, perhaps in libraries for the elite.

Such items included miniatures which showed characters from Islam.

Gruber says the advent of mass-circulation print media in the 18th Century posed a challenge. The colonisation of some Muslim lands by European forces and ideas was also significant, she says.

The Islamic response was to emphasise how different their religion was to Christianity, with its history of public iconography, Gruber argues. Pictures of Muhammad started to disappear, and a new rhetoric against depictions emerged.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30814555[/quote]

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