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 ...

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...

Heraclius Questions Muhammad's Prophethood
Abu Sufyan bin Harb was one of the most powerful men in Mecca. After the Battle of Badr, he became leader of the Quraish, and was husband to the famous Hind bint Utbah, who ordered her Ethiopian slave to kill the Prophet’s Uncle Hamza at the Battle of Uhud. He was a fervent opponent of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), though freely converted to Islam after the peaceful conquest of Mecca. A tale...

The Mawlid of al-Barzanji
Together with frequent contributor Abdal Hakim Murad LastProphet.info is honoured to present a short clip from a recording of the mawlid of Imam Ja’far al-Barzanji (d. 1764). One of the most famous and popular mawlid recitals celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) birth, this particular recording comes all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, where it was movingly performed by the acclaimed Ma...

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...