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Its also worth mentioning not all strains of Islam are iconoclastic. The tradition is old and may have partially been a reaction to Roman Orthodox Christianity, which was big on icons of saints being a prominent part of ceremonies (a tradition that survives in Orthodox Christianity in modern times). But many schools of Islam are fine with depictions of the Prophets. The Mughals were especially fond of depicting scenes from the lives of the Prophets, for example.

However, the Ottoman Empire tended to promote conservative schools that emphasized obedience to state authority and, of course, Wahhabism is infamously conservative (and utter shit) and the Saudis very actively promote it throughout the Muslim world, to the grief of all.