US editor to collaborate on Majidi film
Sep 09, 2011 American film editor and sound designer Walter Scott Murch will visit Tehran to discuss collaboration with award-winning Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi. Murch will meet Majidi about the director's cinematic rendition of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) life, IRNA reported. Majidi's film will focus on Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) life from childhood until prophethood. The...

Review: The Life of Muhammad, Episode 1
The significance of BBC Two’s recent broadcast of the first episode of the documentary, the Life of Muhammad, who the BBC describes as “a man who - for the billion and half Muslims across the globe - is the messenger and final prophet of God” is palpable. Rageh Omaar, journalist and Al-Jazeera’s Middle-East correspondent, narrates the life of the man who “changed the course of world history”, be...

New take? Or more of the same?
The BBC is surely to be commended for their pioneering step in taking the life of the Prophet Muhammad to a wider audience. Making his life more accessible to a western viewership with such a pronounced paucity of knowledge about the personality at the center of the faith system of one-fifth of the world’s population, the significance of the Life of Muhammad documentary cannot go unnoticed. What ...

The Finale: The Life of Muhammad, Episode 3
The third and final installment of the Life of Muhammad documentary aired on BBC Two recently presented the latter stages of the Prophet Muhammad’s life and explored the extent to which his life and actions are reflected in today’s world. While the episode clearly addresses several key issues deemed to be the most controversial aspects of his life, it does not fall into the conventional trap of e...

Germans to read "Muhammad as Man"
Sep 08,2011 "Der Prophet Muhammad als Mensch" (Prophet Muhammad as Man) is written in German by Said Alpsoy. According to the Public Relations of Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) the book tends to offer a truthful portrait of the Holy prophet of Islam and his human essence to all individuals interested in this religion, IBNA reported. It is written in the introdu...

Majidi names cast of Holy Prophet
Sep 06,2011 The internationally-acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi has announced the cast for his cinematic rendition of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) life. Amin Tarokh, Mehdi Pakdel and Sareh Bayat will appear in the religious blockbuster along with a number of other renowned actors, Mehr News Agency reported. The cast members were selected under the supervision of Majidi and Italian...

Iranian film “Muhammad (S)” ramps up casting

Sep 05,2011 TEHRAN -- Amin Tarokh, Mehdi Pakdel and Sareh Bayat along with a number other actors have joined the cast of the Iranian blockbuster “Muhammad (S)”, which is being made by writer-director Majid Majidi.  This film will depict the life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) from the age of 12 until his appointment to prophethood.   “Havana File” actor Ta...

Prophet Muhammad subject of Trinity University lecture series
Sep 03,2011 Emerging research into the historic sources used to understand the Prophet Muhammad will be a main theme in a series of free lectures this fall at Trinity University. The yearly Lennox Lecture Series will bring in academic experts on Islam's founder, its history and contemporary debates. Speakers also will touch on how U.S. Muslims have fared as the nation approaches the 10th...

Prayers of the Prophets in the Qur'an
Prayers of the Prophets A Lastprophet.info compilation of the Qur’anic verses presenting the personal supplications of the Prophets. Prayers include those of Prophets Solomon, Jonah, Adam, Abraham, Ishmael, Zachariah and Muhammad, upon them all be peace. The following are the prayers in the original Qur'anic text as well as in their English translations:   1 / The Distinction, 25:74 "Our Lord! ...

Saudi Arabia starts major expansion of Grand Mosque in Mecca
Aug 20, 2011 Saudi Arabia has begun the biggest expansion yet of Islam's holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, to raise its capacity to 2 million pilgrims/Hassan Ali Saudi Arabia has begun the biggest expansion yet of Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, to raise its capacity to 2 million pilgrims, the state news agency SPA said. “King Abdullah inaugurated in M...

The Prophet's Toothbrush: Miswak — the wonder twig
 Aug 20, 2011 If you thought it might sound old-fashioned to suggest you start using tree twigs to clean your teeth, you are wrong. The World Health Organisation for oral hygiene has recognised the multiple benefits of miswak. The miswak or siwak is a teeth-cleaning twig taken from the Salvadora persica tree known as arak in Arabic or peelu in Urdu. Studies have found the valuable medic...

Largest book on Prophet planned
Aug 23, 2011 JEDDAH: Plans are under way to publish literally the largest book on the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), which is expected to weigh 1,600 kg and contain 420 pages, each page with dimensions of four by five meters. The book, according to Shams Arabic daily, is authored by Abdullah Al-Mosleh, secretary-general of the Organization for Scientific Miracles in the Holy Qur&rsq...