Born With a Pen: Expressing the Prophet through Islamic Calligra
  Interview with Ali Hüsrevoğlu, Turkish calligraphy artist Can we begin with some information on how you began your artistic life? This happened through the guidance of Allah. My intention was to concentrate on science and not art. However, when Allah placed such a program in front of me, I, subconsciously, leaned towards art more. I saw that there were very few people actually reflecting t...

Fighting Islamophobia in the West
Interview with Bashy Quraishy Islamophobia is one of the most troubling issues of today's world which obstruct the development of inter-religious relationships based on dialogue and understanding and it is being questioned again and again, particularly after the ban of the minarat in Switzerland. In this respect, Lastprophet.info has asked Bashy Quraishy, an influent activist in Europe, abou...

A Life Dedicated to Spread the Word
Seham Amba is a doctor and an activist living in Saudi Arabia, trying to reach out and care about people around her. Amba told her story to Lastprophet.info. We would like to hear your story first... I have two children at the age of 22 and 24. I finished medical school in Jeddah in 1982 at King Aziz University. In 1990 I did one year at the Royal College of Physicians in London in medical rehabi...

Leaders Should Invest in the Youth
Islamophobia and the problems of the Islamic world are among the main issues of the contemporary world. However, the perception of the youth is as important as the elder generations since it is the youth who is going to reconfigure the world. Sulaiman Musa, the representative of the Youth Partnership for Peace in Sierra Leone, a country which also has witnessed serious inter-religious conflicts, ...

The Responsibility of the Islamic World
Interview with Rachid BenaissaBorn in Algeria and mostly known as the former international official at UNESCO (1978-2002), Professor Rachid Benaissa is a significant Muslim intellectual who has influenced generations with his ideas and seminars since the 1960s. Benaissa attended more than 200 international conferences on different subjects, mostly educational, cultural, religious and political. Be...

The Prophet in the Words of Celebrities
It is the Universe that Admires You ADEM CEVIK Sutun Publications The book by Adem Cevik is a compilation of the sentiments, thoughts and evaluations of celebrities in world history about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The first section of the book consists of names from the Turkish world of thought and culture, the second section delves into the views of Sultans and the third section entails the thoug...

Lings' The Life of Prophet Muhammad Audiobook in Turkish
Martin Lings    digg_title = "The Life of Prophet Muhammad"; var sburl1433 = window.location.href; var sbtitle1433 = document.title;Vocalized by: Mustafa Demirci Translator: Nazife Sisman The Life of the Holy Prophet by Martin Lings, who is known for his many books translated into Turkish, has been converted into an audio book by Insan Publishing House...

The Body Language of Prophet Muhammad
  digg_title = "The Body Language of Prophet Muhammad"; var sburl7928 = window.location.href; var sbtitle7928 = document.title;"The Body Language of the Holy Prophet" is an interesting book prepared with the aim to compare the body language and communication techniques of the Holy Prophet with the communication and body language data of our era in order to contri...

Literature’s Warm Breeze in the Prophet's City
Run your fingers along the shelves of your bookcase. You will see that no one's life has been recorded in as much detail as the Prophet Muhammad's (peach be upon him) life. The tradition of sirah continues, as it has for centuries, to describe the Prophet in the finest detail: his birth, his youth, the coming of revelation, the Migration, the Badr-Uhud-Handaq battles, agreements and victo...

The World of the Convert
The convert's inner world is filled with feelings that must be among the most difficult to express. No matter how many times they tell their life story, there is always an untold feeling in the depths of their spiritual world. They have embraced the new religion by struggling with the question "which is harder to endure: going or staying?" hundreds of times. For a person who has changed their re...

A Modern Arabic Biography of Muhammad: A Critical Study of Muham
by Antonie Wessels Review Author: Robert B. Campbell S.J. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 2. (Apr. - Jun., 1975), pp. 303-305. To write a history of the life of Muhammad poses problems for the modern Muslim, as a history of Jesus does for Christians. It is not easy to remain faithful both to objective history and the demands of faith. Moreover, for the Muslim today there ex...

Mother of the Believers: A Novel of the Birth of Islam by Kamran
  My intention in writing this novel has been to give Westerners a glimpse of the richness that exists within the Muslim historical tradition and invite all my readers to learn more about Islam and draw their own conclusions.                        Kamran Pasha Mother of th...