A depiction of Prophet Muhammad receiving his first revelation from the angel Gabriel. Miniature illustration on vellum from the book Jami' al-Tawarikh, circa 1306-15. This image is at the center ...

A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad receiving the beginning of Quranic revelations from God through the angel Gabriel. Rashid al-Din, Jami‘ al-Tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles), Tabriz ...

As Christiane Gruber, a professor of Islamic art at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, reminds us, Muslim artists since the 14th century have depicted Muhammad visually — images that were ...

This painting by medieval Islamic scholar Rashid al-Din shows Muhammad receiving his first revelation from the angel Gabriel, and was reportedly one of the images shown to the class at Hamline ...

According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad’s life changed forever in the year 610, on the seventeenth night of the Arabic month Ramadan, when the angel Gabriel called him to be a prophet of God ...

This 15th-century world history, by Hafiz-i Abru, also shows the Angel Gabriel calling on the Prophet Muhammad to spread the word of God. This work, ...

Gabriel woke Muhammad, and they rode a buraq, a creature with a woman's face and a peacock's tail, to Jerusalem, where they ascended into heaven. They leave what is now the Dome of the Rock in ...

What is Ramadan? Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic, or Hijri, calendar.Muslims believe that God revealed the first verses of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel ...