This document provides an overview of various images related to cartoons, icons, and depictions of religious figures in Islam. It includes examples of controversial images that sparked outrage, as well as historical images from manuscripts and coins depicting figures like the Prophet Muhammad in respectful or ambiguous ways. The document also discusses individuals and events tied to debates over religious imagery, freedom of expression, and blasphemy.

2. Cartoons & Icons
Notes from an Archive of Heresy & Blasphemy

3. Images from Archive of
Popular Islamic Devotional Posters
Yousuf Saeed’s Research Project

5. ‘Ecce Homo’, Elizabeth Ohlson Wallin

6. ‘Piss Christ’, Andres Serrano

7. ‘The Ninth Hour’, Maurizio Cattelan

8. ‘Durga/Saraswati/Lakshmi’, M.F. Husain

9. ‘Durga/Hanuman’, M.F. Husain

10. New Statesman, 14 January 2002

11. Jibril-o-Iblis
‘gar kabhi khilvat muyassar ho to pooch, Allah se
qissa-e-adam ko rangiñ kar gaya kiska lahu ?
maiñ khaktakta huñ dil-e yazdañ meñ kaante ki tarah
tu faqat Allah-hu, Allah-hu, Allah-hu
Muhammad Iqbal

12. Kåre Bluitgen
The Koran and the Life of the
Prophet Muhammed

13. illustrations from
‘The Koran and the Life of the Prophet Muhammed’

14. Cartoons and Icons: Notes from an Archive of Blasphemy and Heresy
Flemming Rose
Editor, Jyllands-Posten

15. Babar Baig
Nasser Khaled
Tanwir Ahmed
The ‘Minhaj al Quran’ Controversy
in the Danish Radikale Venstre Party
May 2001
Mona Sheikh

21. Kurt Westergaard’s ‘Ticking Bomb Head’
superimposed on Andres Serrano’s image of ‘Piss Christ’

23. Akhmad Akkari
Imam Ahmad Abu Laban
Dossier about championing [the cause of] the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
a.k.a The ‘Akkari-Laban’ Dossier (frontispiece)

24. Pages 34 and 35 of the ‘Akkari-Laban’ Dossier (frontispiece)

25. The Image on the AP Report of Aug,15, 2005
The Image on Page 34 of
the ‘Akkari-Laban’ Dossier

26. Akhmad Akkari
Imam Ahmad Abu Laban
Dossier about championing [the cause of] the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
a.k.a The ‘Akkari-Laban’ Dossier (frontispiece)

27. New Statesman, 14 January 2002

28. Muslim heads of state and government at the Mecca Meeting of the Organization of
Islamic Countries that condemned the Jyllands Posten Cartoons

29. David Duke & Others
‘International Holocaust
Review Conference’
Tehran, December 2005
Cartoon Entries for Hamshahri’s ‘Holocaust Cartoon Contest’

30. www.boomka.org

31. Abu Laban
Flemming Rose
Ahmednijad
Akkari
Map Showing Spread of Violence in the wake of the Cartoons
Haji Yakoob Kureishi

32. Byzantine Silver Milerasion, showing Constans II (652-54 AD)
The Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malok’s Gold Dinar (693 AD)

33. The Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malok’s Gold Dinar (693 AD)
Possibly the Earliest Image of Muhammad ?

34. Byzantine and Umayyad Coinage Compared

35. The Evolution of Early Muslim Coinage - Towards Aniconism

36. 3 Leaves from the ‘Siyer-e-Nabi’ (Progress of the Prophet), Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul

37. ‘The Day of Judgement’. ‘Coffee House Painting’
Attributed to the artist Mohammad Modabber. ca. late 19th century.
In the Reza Abbasi Museum Collection (Iran).

38. The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad,
from Jami' al-tavarikh (quot;Compendium of Chroniclesquot;).
Tabriz, Persia, c. 1307.
In the Library of the University of Edinburgh.

39. Mohammed as a youth meeting the monk Bahira.
From Jami' al-tavarikh (quot;Compendium of Chroniclesquot;). Tabriz, Persia, c. 1315.
In the Library of the University of Edinburgh.

40. Miniature of Mohammed re-dedicating the Black Stone at the Kaaba.
From Jami' al-Tavarikh (quot;The Universal Historyquot; or quot;Compendium of
Chronicles,quot; written by Rashid Al-Din), a manuscript in the Library of
the University of Edinburgh; illustrated in Tabriz, Persia, c. 1315.

41. Leaves from a copy of the Majm’a-al-tawarikh (quot;Compendium of Historiesquot;), ca. 1425; Timurid.
From Herat, Afghanistan. In The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

42. Arab illustration showing Mohammed (on the right) preaching to the earliest
converts. From a manuscript in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris (Manuscrits Arabe 1489 fol. 5v).

43. The Night Journey of Muhammad on His Steed,
Mohammed flying over Mecca, at the
Buraq; leaf from a copy of the Bustan of Sa’adi,
beginning of his quot;Night Journey.quot; From the
dated 1514. From Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
manuscript entitled Khamseh, by Nezami,
In The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1494-5. Currently in the British Museum

44. Mohammed (far right) and the Archangel
Gabriel standing in front of a giant angel.
From the Miraj-name, Tabriz (c. 1360-70).
In the Topkapi Palace Library, Istanbul.

45. Mohammed visiting Paradise while riding Buraq,
accompanied by the Angel Gabriel. Persian, 15th century,
from a manuscipt entitled Miraj Nama,
In the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

46. Mohammed, along with Buraq and Gabriel, visit Hell, Iran, 15th century.

53. www.chick.com

54. ‘Hazrat Ali’

55. ‘Hazrat Ali’ ‘Hazrat Isa/Jesus’ ‘Prophet Zoraster’

56. ‘Hazrat Ali’, or ‘Prophet Muhammad’ ?

57. ‘The
Prophet
as a
Young
Boy’
http://www.oranous.org/Image/Low%20Quality/Prophet%20Mohammad.htm

58. Tranformation : ‘The Boy Mohammed’

59. Tranformation : ‘The Boy Mohammed’

62. ‘Mohaguru’ Aroj Ali Matubbor Rokeyya Sakhawat Hosain

68. http://muttawa.blogspot.com/2006/02/memo.html

70. From:
Iqbal Ahmed
Caricaturist
United Arab Emirates
Date: 09 July 1999
Attn: Mirza Tahir Ahmed Qadiani
Amir Jamaat Ahmadiyya & Self appointed 4th Khalifa
16-18 Gressenhall Road
London SW18 5QL
Mr. Mirza Tahir
Sub: News Item in Nida International about ;the death
of Iqbal Ahmed The Cartoonist of Anti Ahmadiyya
Movement in Islam.
I have taken a very serious note of a news item that
appeared in one of your Jamat’s publication about
my death.