In Tournai, Belgian sculptor Guillaume Charlier’s Les Aveugles immortalizes four blind men and their young guide, a moment of solidarity in misery drawn from a Ramadan scene in early 20th-century Morocco.
The creator of the Ifrane Lion remains a mystery, with theories ranging from Italian and German prisoners to a French sculptor, Henri Jean Moreau. Despite various claims, research points to Moreau as the most likely sculptor, who worked on the lion around 1930.
In the 1930s, the United States commissioned a sculptor to build a marble frieze for the Supreme Court that depicted 18 lawgivers. The list included Prophet Mohammed, whose sculpture was seen as controversial by the Muslim community in the United States.
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