Boğaziçi University will host Dr. Jonathan Brown!
  Dr. Jonathan Brown, from Georgetown University, address a large audience on May 18 about The Role of Sunnah in Islam: Misquoting Muhammad (pbuh). Date: 18th of May, Wednesday Time: 7 pm. Location: Garanti Cultural Center, Ayhan Şahenk Hall...

Calender of the 3 Holy Months

Majid Majidi's Movie Will Be Shown in Turkey
Majid Majidi’s Tehran-backed production telling the story of Muhammad (pbuh)’s early years to be shown in March in Turkey. You can recieve Lastprophet.info's interview with Majid Majidi here.

A Story of Betrayal: KARBALA
On 10 Muharram 61/10 October 680 in Karbala, near Kufa, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Hussein b. Ali, was murdered along with the close male relatives who were accompanying him. Throughout Islamic history this event had an important effect on religious, political, social and cultural developments.In order to understand the events at Karbala it is necessary to examine some earlier develo...

The Sunna of Sacrificing
Eid al-Adha is called the Great Eid. It occurs at the culmination of the Hajj, and is the culmination of the first ten blessed days of Dhu al-Hijjah, days which have been described by our beloved Prophet (pbuh) as the best days of the year, exceeding even the days of Ramadan in their virtue. From the confirmed Sunnahs (practices of the Prophet) of Eid al-Adha is the sacrifice of a suitable animal...

Fasting as a Celebration
We know the importance of fasting as an act of worship because it’s a command from Allah (s.w.t), and it’s one of the five pillars of Islam according to the Hadith Jibreel, which is a sound narration from the Prophet (s.a.w). We are also aware of its value in the eyes of God… Nevertheless, many of us experience a kind of worry and uneasiness that we avoid putting into words, bot...

Are We Ready for Ramadan?
We live in the time where months and years seem to be devoid of blessing; that is, a week passes like a day, a month like a week and a year like a month. It seems like just the other day when we last bid farewell to the month of Ramadan. And yet here it is again. A friend of mine once said that when she asked people how they were, as one usually does in the manner of conversing, people responded...

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 ...

Murat Pay: Breath of the Beloved
The documentary “The Breath of the Beloved”, directed by Murat Pay and produced by Kaplan Film, is a compelling film about a tradition that is slowly withering away: meshk and mawlid. We had a conversation with the director, who seeks to evoke some of our waning traditions through the young mawlid-reciter Abdurrahman’s story, about his film, mawlid, and the tradition of meshk. ...