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...

How Can Muslims Respond to the Paris Attacks?
It seems to bring back to life the hours after September 11th. Now in Paris twelve journalists are dead at the hands of two murderers shouting "Allahu Akbar." How it is possible to shout something like this while killing people is a mystery. Maybe they do it just for this reason: to stain the name of Islam. The real offense against the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was committed by those two crazy kill...

Free Speech à la française
The tragic attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo should prompt sincere reflection.  For many Muslims, the incident raises once again the question of how and if the dictates of their religion should be lived and understood in a world constantly in flux, a world in which many of the assumptions and hopes of Islam’s moral and legal vision can seem outdated.  As in the case of other attacks carried ...

Dr. John Andrew Morrow
The traditional sources for knowing and understanding the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) include the Qur'an, the Hadith, and to a lesser extent, the Sirah. Dr. John Andrew Morrow has brought attention to what may be considered another foundational set of source material. As the result of research that took him to churches and monasteries across the Middle East, Dr. Morrow has collected a set of writ...

Tour Turkey with Omid Safi
Dr. Omid Safi is one of the leading voices for Islam today. An accomplished scholar, he is a Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, and serves as the Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center. LastProphet.info had the honour to receive Dr. Safi at our offices in Istanbul last year and talk with him about his book, ‘Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters’. Dr. Safi w...

Director Muhammad Bayazid
How can the life of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) be relevant to our own lives today? The miniseries ‘Inspiration’ explores the timeless nature of the Prophet’s message by telling the story of a young American Muslim who draws on the example of the Prophet to help confront the personal, professional and spiritual challenges he faces in his daily life. Muhammad Bayazid is a Syrian ...

Dawah in the 21st century: Qur'an as Graphic Art
While the traditional Islamic arts have been experiencing a revival of late, some artists have been turning to more modern media to communicate their faith. Erfian Asafat is a young Indonesian who applies his talent as an artist to depicting the Qur'an as a graphic illustration - otherwise known as a comic. Erfian talked with LastProphet.info about how 21st century media led to his spritual reaw...

The last living 'Sahibi'
In the deserts of northern Jordan there is a tree that stands alone within hundreds of miles of emptiness. It is believed that over fourteen hundred years ago under the shade of this tree a meeting took place between the young Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the Christian monk Buhira. The story about the rediscovery of this living link to the Prophet is recorded in the documentary 'The ...