Shaykh Rizwan Arastu is a graduate of the Islamic Seminary of Qum and currently lives near Chicago. He received a bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University. He is the founding director of the Islamic Texts Institute, a non-profit aimed at making Islamic sources accessible to non-specialists. He is also the founder of Islamic-Literacy.org, a web-based educational platform that aims to help all Muslims become Islamically literate.Shaykh Rizwan has authored and co-authored eight books. He is currently writing a biography of Prophet Muhammad called The Last Emissary: Muhammad.