Why is showing portrayals of prophets prohibited in Islam?

[Hatikvah]

Didn’t Christianity go through a phase like this around the time Islam sprung up?

I vaguely remember some sort of theological controversy regarding Icons and Statues in Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire - although I haven’t the foggiest notion as to why it occurred.

Yes, and it required an ecumenical council (the seventh, the Second Council of Nicaea) to solve it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Nicaea

 

[MartinJordan]

Yes, and it required an ecumenical council (the seventh, the Second Council of Nicaea) to solve it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Nicaea

So reverance toward Icons and statues used are not idolatry but a way to honour God as True and Awesome and Holy to whom the saints honoured. We too then have examples to their Faith and we then can be assured God loves us and we love Him.

MJ