6th Hadith and Seerah Studies Award Ceremony
The 6th Annual Hadith and Seerah Studies Award Ceremony took place on April 12th at the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall as part of the Meridyen Association’s website project Lastprophet.info. The Ceremony started with the screening of a brief film introducing the projects of Meridyen Association and Lastprophet.info. Following an introduction speech by the Association’s President Saliha...

Last Sermon delivered to all fifty US states
An American man has set out to recite the Adhan and deliver the Last Sermon of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in all fifty US states. Jameel Syed, 40, of Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a trained muezzin. His efforts aim to combat the negative media portrayals of Islam and present a positive, affirming image of who Muslims are, while at the same time helping young Muslims to connect with their faith. How...

''Islam is not the problem. It is the solution.''
Dr. John Andrew Morrow, a Canadian scholar who converted to Islam over thirty years ago, has come to the defense of Islam at a time when many people, in East and West, seek to equate it with extremism and terrorism. As Dr. Morrow, a Full Professor of Foreign Languages and senior scholar of Islam, explained during his public lecture at the Intercontinental Hotel in Abu Dhabi on March 10th of 201...

Symposium Speakers Announced
Renowned scholars Tariq Ramadan and Jonathan A.C. Brown will join sixty Turkish academics at the International Sirah Studies Symposium that will occur April 9th to 12th at the Bağlarbaşı Meeting and Cultural Center in Istanbul. On April 9th at 19:30 Jonathan A.C. Brown will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony on the topic ‘‘Presenting Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) To The Wor...

Jonas Yunus Atlas: Halal Monk
The film ‘Forest Gump’ has the main character sitting at a bus stop and telling his whole candid life to a series of passing strangers. It’s part of the human experience that we sometimes speak more freely and truthfully with people we don’t know than with our closest friends and family. There can be something powerfully insightful about the meeting with a ‘stranger’, as suggested by the Qur’anic ...

UIK Project: Our Love To The Beloved
To counter many of the negative perceptions of Islam that have been provoked by recent world events, The International Students of Theology at Marmara University in Turkey have made a video highlighting the universal ethical values that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) both lived and taught. ...

Dr. Fazlun Khalid & The Islamic Environmental Message
Dr. Fazlun Khalid is a pioneer of the Islamic environmental movement. The founder and director of The Islamic Foundation for Ecology & Environmental Sciences (IFEES), Dr. Khalid has led the way both as a scholar shedding light upon the environmental teachings of Islam, and as an adcovate raising environmental awareness among Muslims and developing methods of applying these teachings to sm...

Jerusalem Grand Mufti Receives Covenants
Gary L. Krupp, Founder and President of Pave the Way Foundation, a non-sectarian organization dedicated to achieving peace by closing the gap in tolerance, education and the practical relations between religions, through cultural, technological and intellectual exchanges, recently granted a copy of "The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World'' by Dr. John Andrew Morro...

Animals in the Qur'an - An Interview with Sarra Tlili
We tend to think of the Qur'an from an exclusively human perspective, but what can it tell us about  God's relationship with the nonhuman world? Dr. Sarra Tlili, a scholar of Arab and Islamic Studies, and currently an Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Florida, explores this question in her recent book, Animals in the Qur'an (Cambridge University Press, 20...

Chapel Hill: Will We Know Why?
The team of LastProphet.info shares their hearts in suffering with the family, friends, and loved ones of the three young and innocent Muslims killed on Tuesday, February, 10th, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his newly-wed wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, had their bright futures taken away from them as they were gunned dow...

Heraclius Questions Muhammad's Prophethood
Abu Sufyan bin Harb was one of the most powerful men in Mecca. After the Battle of Badr, he became leader of the Quraish, and was husband to the famous Hind bint Utbah, who ordered her Ethiopian slave to kill the Prophet’s Uncle Hamza at the Battle of Uhud. He was a fervent opponent of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), though freely converted to Islam after the peaceful conquest of Mecca. A tale...

The Mawlid of al-Barzanji
Together with frequent contributor Abdal Hakim Murad LastProphet.info is honoured to present a short clip from a recording of the mawlid of Imam Ja’far al-Barzanji (d. 1764). One of the most famous and popular mawlid recitals celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) birth, this particular recording comes all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, where it was movingly performed by the acclaimed M...