Int'l Conference on the Companions of Prophet Muhammad
Int'l Conference on the Companions of Prophet Muhammad Jun 29,2011 Hyderabad, Jun 29 (PTI) An International Conference on `Azmat-E-Sahaba' -- companions of Prophet Muhammad -- will start here on Friday. The 3-day conference is being organised by Jamia Islamia Darululoom which will be attended by Islamic Scholars from the middle-east, Nepal, Denmark and Canada, said Mohammed Raheemuddin An...

BBC to show film on Muhammad's life
Jun 20,2011 The BBC is to trace the journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad for a new series which is claimed to be a first for British television. Al Jazeera reporter Rageh Omaar will present the three-part programme for BBC2, following in the prophet's footsteps from Mecca and along the journeys he took during his life. To ensure the programmes are in line with Islamic tradition, they will ...

Between Allah & Jesus: What Christians Can Learn from Muslims
Despite the distorted image of Islam in the West, there remains an underlying sense of admiration and intrigue surrounding the exercise of the Islamic faith.  This fascination with the world’s fastest growing religion is one that goes beyond the old school infatuation with the exotic other, but rather a slightly more sincere attempt by outsiders to approach Islam as a guidepost for be...

Hadith and Sirah Research Awards
The fourth of the annual Hadith and Sirah Research Awards Ceremony, hosted by IRCICA, was held on Saturday April 9th at Yıldız Saray in Istanbul, Turkey. Many prominent guests, such as the Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertuğrul Günay, General Director of IRCICA Mohammed Thamimi, and the wife of Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sare Davutoğlu were present as the winners’ names were announced...

Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet - A Review
  Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophetis a fictionalized account of the life of Muhammad.  Unlike many biographies of Muhammad, this novel fills in the gaps between authenticated historical details with the author’s own creative license.  Each chapter of the novel is told from the perspective of individuals who encountered the Prophet as both a child and an adult.  Such...

Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Modernity, Practice of Faith & Spirituali
  As for modernism, modernism is now exploding from within; it’s breaking up in a paradigm which governs over modernity, which we call modernism. Host: Given the conditions of the contemporary world, is Islam evolving or transforming in such a way that it may adapt to modernity, or is modernity evolving into something that is more accepting of religion? Nasr: Well I don&rsq...

A Response to 'My Take: There’s no such thing as the Bible and n
  While Beal’s statements may appear harsh, his views are similar to the Islamic outlook of the Bible. On February 22nd, author and professor Timothy Beal unleashed an oft repeated stance on Biblical error.  His blog entry, My Take:  There’s no such thing as the Bible and never has been, points to the reality that there have been as many versions and iterat...

The Lens of Islam: An Interview with Peter Sanders
In the first edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims published in 2009 by Georgetown University's The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talaal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Peter Sanders is described as “a notable photographer and convert to Islam. He was granted exclusive privileges to photograph Hajj pilgrimage rituals ...

When the Social Contract is Breached in Egypt
  The Egyptian people, many for the first time in their lives tasting the inebriating wine of political freedom, are challenging their government, courageously defying the fear factor so ruthlessly cultivated in the belly of the bestial state security apparatus. Something has irreversibly changed in the land of the Pharaohs. It has to do with the basic social contract, the relationsh...

Vision and Mission
  Vision: To be a platform where Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his message, Islam, are represented truthfully and objectively in the best possible way. Mission: To spread trustworthy and accurate information about the prophet of Islam to the whole world, to correct the misinformation about the Prophet of Islam, to promote academic and non-academic works in the field. ...

Live from the Ka’ba
Watch a live daily broadcast from SaudiTV in Mecca of the Ka’ba during the five daily prayers via LastProphet.info. TheTarawih prayers in Mecca during the month of Ramadan can also be viewed here.   (Please note: occasional broadcasting interruptions are SaudiTV-related and not connected to Lastprophet.info)

Live from the Prophet's Mosque (Masjid al-Nabawi)
Live broadcasts of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina can be viewed 24 hours at LastProphet.info. (Please note: occasional broadcasting interruptions are SaudiTV-related and not connected to Lastprophet.info)