Protests have spread across the Muslim world over the publication in Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The BBC News website looks at why the depictions have caused such offence. What does ...

I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger. Coloring the lips permanently ... a prohibited act and a ...

The perpetrators were allegedly responding to controversial cartoons the newspaper has published, sometimes showing the prophet Muhammad naked, other times showing him as sickly and in a wheelchair.

A man who could not read or write, he announced that he was the prophet of God. His name was Muhammad, and in the next 23 years he would bring peace to the warring pagan tribes of Arabia and ...

On this episode, we sketch out the life of the prophet Muhammad: how he rose up the ranks in the desert caravans; his marriage to a wealthy widow - the love of his life - and then finally ...