Who (and when) were the most recent Christian, Islamic and Judaic prophets?

Indeed. However, check the Wiki on Islamic prophets, the definition is great teachers, and the 224,000 or so include great scientists and medics. I would theorise that they were deemed to be ‘gifted’, i.e. you can’t be that smart unless God chose to make you that way. Likewise, that would have been the basis for declaring someone a prophet in the first place - an intellectual (rare in a small population, common in large ones) who could articulate the inexplicable had to have been ‘chosen’. Another interesting association is that the Greeks deemed inexplicable diseases like epilepsy and insanity (both well controlled today) were god-induced, which I suppose we would call anti-gifted. I digress - my question stands.

It’s been a long time since I was in saturday school. It isnt how I was taught about prophets, but like I said, different sects will view this differently.

For English church-goers it was Sunday school, and I think it’s SUnday for children at mosques too. I suspect it is our ability to create ‘silos’ of thinking that has consistenty been humanity’s undoing…. It’s like the 7 blind men and the elephant (also in Wiki) - each has only a part of the real truth. It’s only when you join the dots that it gets really interesting.

I was talking about religious education classes at my mosque. Sunday has no particular meaning in islam. And yes, I know the story. I’ve used it when I did my groups to try to help with religious tolerance.

i think there are Christian prophets today. people prophesy about their schools, their churches, and a lot of other stuff. my youth minister and my pastor have both prophesied about many things that have actually come to pass. i didnt think there were any prophets in this age, until pretty recently. i have actually prophesied, and it was…whoa. so i believe prophets are still here today, Christian prophets. idk about muslim or judiac “prophets” but ive learned that the people who claim to be prophets are false teachers of other religions. and, sad to say and ashamed to admit, even the Christian religion. so i dont have an answer for the other two.

Funnily enough, I’d been checking some London mosqgue websites to see which day might have been most used. One of the Imam’s had such interesting questions, I may email him! Is there a difference between sects in terms of Quran study? I’ve been to many mosques in my travels and education centres are found in most, particularly in parts of the world where state education is more patchy. Is it just the religious side or a combination with science, maths, history and language, say (in which Islam has great traditions of course).

Yes, there is a difference. We never actually did any Quran study. Also, I wasnt in a muslim country, and my family belongs to a particularly liberal sect, so school was different from religious learning.

As far as Christian prophets go, people still speak prophetically and work miracles. The others i dont know about.

That was part of my background thought - it’s quite common (and convenient!) for someone to declare themselves a prophet or at least to believe they speak prophetically. Financial whizz-kids like Warren Buffet are often regarded as prophets of the finance world, but there is a process for agreeing that someone is indeed a religious prophet. It varies by sect though, but I’m not aware of any recent ones. By biblical standards, non-believing surgeons perform miracles every day, on demand. The definition of ‘miracle’ has clearly changed, and this might explain why prophets have become less common.

Your definition of ‘prophet’ might fit any intelligent person who can spot a pattern and a trend. It is no surprise to find intelligent people in religion - it requires talent - there’s a lifetime’s study to even begin to make some reasonable sense of it, even when you ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’. When I was designing future business processes in line with rapidly evolving technology, I was obliged to forecast accurately every day how the future would roll out in three continents, or else waste millions of pounds on an ongoing basis - it was just a job, but a biblical character would have considered it witchcraft, because I was not obviously engaged in anything that would have fitted their concept of holy. My employer might have considered it a sacred task; their holy grail even - but it was merely one of several projects of similar importance, so far as long-term company survival and keeping people in jpbs was concerned. This is why understanding how the meaning and usage of words changes over time is so important, and it is why there are 20 versions of the Bible. Many people now find it very hard to read the early versions let alone understand them. If scholars could consistently agree on what was meant in the original, there would be fewer versions. Even documents written in the last century have to be read carefully, because meanings have changed and new terms have replaced outdated concepts. Notice that there isn’t more than a core definition of what constitutes a prophet, even within the same religion, and different faiths disagree vigorously as to whose prophets might be fit a particuar set of criteria, or not.

1400-1440 years ago was the last of all prophets (peace be upon him) is mohammad (peace be upon him) the Islam’s prophet and all shall follow the last. and about 500 years before him was jesus (peace be upon him)