Comparison With Judaism and Christianity
Judaism, which is related to Islam as a monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham, Moses, and other prophets, has a comparable prohibition which takes the form of a prohibition on any idol or on any artistic representation of God. The third of the three related religions, Christianity, not only for long had no such prohibition but an active tradition of making and venerating images of God and other religious figures. However there were periods of aniconism, in the Early Christian church, in the Byzantine iconoclasm of the 8th century, and following the Protestant Reformation, when Calvinism in particular rejected all images in churches.
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