Mohammed Image Archive

Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History

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Controversy over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erupted into an international furor. While Muslims worldwide have called for a boycott of Denmark and any other nation whose press reprints the cartoons, Europeans are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech and not cave in to self-censorship in the name of multiculturalism and fear.

While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the supposed Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it‘s just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized.

This page is an archive of numerous depictions of Mohammed, to serve as a reminder that such imagery has been part of Western and Islamic culture since the Middle Ages -- and to serve as a resource for those interested in freedom of expression. (Please note that the Arabic name "Mohammed" has over the years been transliterated into Western languages with several different spellings -- some of which you‘ll encounter on this site -- including Mahomet, Muhammad, and Mohamed.)

The images in the Mohammed Image Archive have been divided into the following categories; click on these links to view the images in each section:

Islamic Depictions of Mohammed in Full

Islamic Depictions of Mohammed with Face Hidden

European Medieval and Renaissance Images

Miscellaneous Mohammed Images

Book Illustrations

Dante‘s Inferno

French Book Covers

Satirical Modern Cartoons

The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons

Recent Responses to the Controversy

Links

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Mirror sites:
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jthz.com (Netherlands) (*Recommended* -- includes latest Archive updates)

evtek.fi (Finland) (*Recommended* -- includes latest Archive updates)

free.hostultra.com (USA)

Retecool (Netherlands)

Outpost911 (USA)

Aaron‘s cc (USA)

parazite.h1.ru (Russia)

Nordish.net (Norway)

bigmoron (USA)

jumalanpilkka 1 (USA)

jumalanpilkka 2 (Finland)

jumalanpilkka 3 (Finland)

Chip (Sweden)

club.telepolis (Spain)
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