Vincenzo: Being a Muslim in the Middle of Europe
digg_title = "Being a Muslim in the Middle of Europe"; var sburl1133 = window.location.href; var sbtitle1133 = document.title; Interview with Ahmad Vincenzo Islam and Europe... These are the two concepts which have been increasingly subject to big debates,  particularly since the last ten years. Living as a Muslim in Europe, thus, rises a lot of issues related to the...

Robert Hefner: The debate is over and Huntington has lost
"Turkey is a very fertile mixture of civilizations," says Robert W. Hefner, professor of anthropology and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University. Even though visiting İstanbul and Ankara for the first time, Hefner has already been working several research projects on Turkey and has worked in Muslim majority countries for more t...

Between Integration and Segregation: Interview with Lord Ahmed
Lord Nazir Ahmed, member of the House of Lords, the first Muslim life peer of the United Kingdom is known for his political activities related to the Islamic community both in the UK and abroad as well as being a member of the Labour Party until 2009. Born in 1958 in Mirpur, Lord Ahmed's family migrated to the UK soon after his birth. He attended Spurley Hey Comprehensive School, then Thomas ...

Jonathan Brown on Being Inspired by Prophet Muhammad
Exclusive interview with Jonathan Brown Can we start with the story of your conversion? I was raised Anglican, the Church of England in America, but my family wasn't very religious. My family wasn't very religious, so I wasn't really brought up as a Christian. I believed in God; I have always believed in God. When I was in college, during my first year at Georgetown, I took a class i...

Putting things in Perspective: Rereading the Prophet’s Life
The first thing to start with is to put our trust in Allah (swa) and never feel discouraged, because this is the path of the Prophets, and the path of all of those who follow the paths of the Prophets. Jamal A. Badawi is an Egyptian born Muslim Canadian and former professor in the Sobey School of Business,Saint Mary's University in Halifax,Nova Scotia. He is a well-known au...

'We Should Just Be Ourselves'
Interview with Professor Is-haq Oloyede What are the indeficiencies in the Islamic world today? What are the responsibilities of the Islamic organizations face to the non-Islamic world as well as to the Islamic world? There are some of the issues which dominate most of the debates on going among scholars and politicians in the Islamic societies. Professor Is-haq Oloyede from the University of Ilo...

Exclusive Interview with Harvey Cox
  digg_title = "Exclusive Interview with Harvey Cox"; var sburl5323 = window.location.href; var sbtitle5323 = document.title;   var so = new SWFObject("http://www.sonpeygamber.info/tr/images/rsgallery/swf/player.swf?flv=coxVideo.flv", "mymovie", "320","240", "8", "#ffffff");so.addParam("menu", "false");so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");so.addParam(...

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...