Omar (TV series)

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Omar
Nour TV, Medi1 TV
ReleaseJuly 20 (2012-07-20) –
August 18, 2012 (2012-08-18)
Related

Omar (

Caliph of Islam, and depicts his life from 18 years old until the moments of his death.[3]

The series faced large controversies

Tangiers, El Jadida, Casablanca and Mohammedia
.

After the series was broadcast on MBC, it was dubbed into several languages for international broadcast[15][16][17] and subtitled in English on YouTube; it received great support from many different Sunni scholarly bodies and people watching it.[18][19][20]

Synopsis

The series starts with one of the pilgrimage of caliph

Abu Lulu
.

Cast

List of episodes

01"
Umar ibn al-Khattab
"		July 20,  2012 (2012-07-20)
02"Conveyance of Islam's last message starts"July 21,  2012 (2012-07-21)
03"Muhammad's (SAW) message, Abu Lahab gets condemned in Surah Lahab"July 22,  2012 (2012-07-22)
04"Family affairs,
Abu Hudhayfa
adopts his slave, The plan to torture and boycott Muslims."		July 23,  2012 (2012-07-23)
05"
Persecution of Muslims by the Meccans
"		July 24,  2012 (2012-07-24)
06"Bilal ibn Rabah gains freedom and embraces Islam."July 25,  2012 (2012-07-25)
07"Migration to Abyssinia"July 26,  2012 (2012-07-26)
08"Umar embraces Islam, Muhammad's (SAW) First Khutbah"July 27,  2012 (2012-07-27)
09"Boycott against Muslims, Chaos in Masjid al-Haram"July 28,  2012 (2012-07-28)
10"
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
"		July 29,  2012 (2012-07-29)
11"
Umayyah ibn Khalaf and Utbah ibn Rabi'ah
"		July 30,  2012 (2012-07-30)
12"Prisoners of the Battle of Badr, The Sabbath, Quraish plan for the Second battle against Muslims"July 31,  2012 (2012-07-31)
13"
Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib
, Digging the Trench"		August 1,  2012 (2012-08-01)
14"
Treaty of Hudaibiyah
"		August 2,  2012 (2012-08-02)
15"The struggle of Abu Baseer,
First Hajj
"		August 3,  2012 (2012-08-03)
16"
'Amr ibn al-'As embrace Islam, Conquest of Mecca
"		August 4,  2012 (2012-08-04)
17"
Abu Sufyan
and some others embrace Islam, Death of the Messenger of God (SAW)"		August 5,  2012 (2012-08-05)
18"Abu Bakr becomes the first caliph, Battle against people not paying Zakat"August 6,  2012 (2012-08-06)
19"Rise of Sajah, Ridda Wars"August 7,  2012 (2012-08-07)
20"
Salim Mawla ibn Abu Hudhayfa
"		August 8,  2012 (2012-08-08)
21"Muslim conquest of Persia"August 9,  2012 (2012-08-09)
22"Death of
Battle of Yarmouk
"		August 10,  2012 (2012-08-10)
23"
Battle of Yarmouk against Theodore Trithyrius
"		August 11,  2012 (2012-08-11)
24"Muslim conquest of the Levant"August 12,  2012 (2012-08-12)
25"Umar and his subjects"August 13,  2012 (2012-08-13)
26"Siege of Damascus"August 14,  2012 (2012-08-14)
27"
Sassanids
"		August 15,  2012 (2012-08-15)
28"
Siege of Jerusalem
"		August 16,  2012 (2012-08-16)
29"Famine Year"August 17,  2012 (2012-08-17)
30"Plague,
conquest of Egypt
"		August 18,  2012 (2012-08-18)
31"Death of
Umar ibn al-Khattab and Election of Uthman
"		August 19,  2012 (2012-08-19)

Production

The project was started on 30 September 2010 through an agreement signed by

Qatar TV) to make a drama series on the life of Caliph Omar, scheduled to be aired during the Ramadan of 2011.[30] The chief of MBC group Waleed al Ibrahim stated that, the drama would not aim at profits:[31]

The dramatic work is not regarded from the profit or loss perspectives.

— Waleed al Ibrahim, chief of MBC group[31]

Saudi producers, the

Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC), said the series is the largest ever Arabic production, with 30,000 actors and a technical team from 10 countries who toiled 300 days to make the 31-part series.[32] The director Ali said that building a replica of Mecca and the surrounding area was a challenge that faced him until he and the crew finally chose a location in Morocco. The series needed a huge crew amount to 500 actors, actresses, and extras in one single day.[33]
Ali also pointed out, several scenes in the series were difficult to shoot like which elephant treads on one of the actors.

The elephant was well-trained for the scene and we made the actor wear an iron shield just in case anything goes wrong.

— Hatem Ali, director[3]

The horses used in the series were brought from Eastern Europe and were trained together with the elephants to make them adapt to each other. The series featured many battle scenes on a large scale. Ali said it took them a total of 54 days with a rate of 12 hours a day and with the participation of 500 extras that were trained on this type of scenes.[3]

Two actors of this series,

Arabic language film Al Risalah (الرسالة), the version of Moustapha Akkad's religious biopic The Message
(a.k.a. Mohammad, Messenger of God) made for the Arab World. Hassan Al-Jundi also acted as
Abu Jahl
in the same film.

Hatem Ali commented that other filmmakers would follow in his footsteps with this taboo broken by him by portraying sensitive early Islamic peronalities like Rashidun Caliphs, by pointing to Majid Majidi, who was then developing the feature film Muhammad: The Messenger of God about the Islamic prophet Muhammad's childhood.[34]

Committee members for managing historical context

A board committee of scholars was created for maintaining the historicity of the script. The major members of the board were:

  1. Yusuf al-Qaradawi[35]
  2. Akram Zia Omari[35]
  3. Salman al-Awda[35]
  4. Abdul Wahab Turairi[35]
  5. Ali al-Sallabi[35]
  6. Saad Al-Otaibi[35]

VFX effects

Most of the episodes of the series contained many expensive computer-generated imagery (CGI) effects which were maintained by French CGI production BUF in association with Hecat,[36][37] as well as title[38] and ending theme[39] also. Moreover, the sets of ancient Mecca and Medina and other sites in Arabia and elsewhere in the post classical era were also produced by the Soora Studio, a Syrian set producer production, which previously made the sets of many other popular Arabic dramas.

Music

The original soundtrack was composed by Turkish musician

Mishary Al-Afasy.[40]

Receptions from Islamic religious scholars

Saleh al-Maghamsi and many other Islamic scholars viewed the series negatively.[46]

The Grand Mufti of the Kingdom and the head of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars,

Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al Shaykh, criminalized the dramatic action saying that those behind "Umar Al Farooq" series have committed a "grave mistake and a crime" by spending their money on the production of such TV work. He also said that he is against the idea of producing the series that "displays the biography of the rightly guided caliphs in a manner that is doomed to wound and criticism." In his Friday sermon, he called for "avoiding these devious ways, which are doomed to offend in these symbols." He added, "These films and series do not bring or mean goodness, and whatever those who prepared it who claim intellectual enlightenment, they are wrong in what they have walked and know that what they offer is dangerous, wrong and crime." The Sheikh did not differ in that from what was issued by Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, who had forbidden the embodiment of the Prophets, the Companions, the House of the Ten, and the Ten Missionaries of Paradise in any artwork.[41][42]

On other part, Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of the Senior Scholars Committee and a member of the Standing Committee for Issuing Fatwas, forbade watching the series, recalling "the consensus of scholars and the Muslim World League to prohibit the representation of the Companions, may God be pleased with them." Everything that comes from Qatar is doubtful of its intentions Many writers wondered why this seasonal controversy takes place around the Ramadan series ?, recalling the controversy raised by Mustafa El Akkad's "The Message".[41][42]

Alī al-Sallabī and Khaled al-Musleh[49]
viewed the series positively.

Zakir Naik gave a mixed review of the series, in a video of his official YouTube channel, he said, "99.9% drama or movie in the name of Islam today is not 100% Islamic and no one can give fatwa that watching them are halal. If you can live without seeing them, then don't see it. Read Quran and sahih hadith, it will be best and harmfree option. But if any Muslim is hooked on wathing Hollywood and Bollywood movies and dramas and feels too much hard to reject the habit of watching them, then it will be lesser sin for them in watching these series than seeing Hollywood and Bollywood vulgarism and obscenity...Firstly I will suggest them to watch The Message movie, then I will suggest them to watch Omar series... There is a series called Omar series, made on the life of Caliph Omar, made by MBC, funded by Qatar Foundation. There are not all things Islamic, there are ladies without hijab, there is music in it. But the verse of Quran they quoted somehow, it is wonderful, most of the hadith are authentic, a few of them are problematic."[50] In reaction of Naik's view about the series, Assim Al-Hakim said, "This is like saying masturbation is better than fornication! Or calling that drinking wine, gambling and other different sins are better than shirk or kufr! What kind of logic is this?".[51]

International broadcasting

The series later has been broadcast in the television channels of different countries such as Turkey,[15] Indonesia, Kosovo, Iran, Tunisia, Egypt etc. either dubbed or with native subtitle.

Country Network Series premiere
 Algeria
EPTV
 July 20, 2012
 Arab League
Qatar TV
 July 20, 2012
 Indonesia MNCTV July 20, 2012
 Kosovo Klan Kosova, TV BESA May, 2020
 Tunisia
Nessma TV
 July 20, 2012
 Turkey
atv, Kanal 7
 July 20, 2012; June 7, 2016
 Lebanon
Future Television
 September 23, 2013
 Iran
Nour TV (UAE)
 September, 2013
 Morocco
Medi1TV
 September, 2013
 Uzbekistan Milly TV 1 May 2018
 United Kingdom Islam Channel 24 June 2020[52]

Traditional historicity and depictional issues

In the traditional Islamic accounts, there are two different stories found about the conversion of

Umayyah ibn Khalaf was killed by a group of Muslims led by Bilal ibn Rabah, but in the series, Bilal ibn Rabah has been shown to kill Umayyah ibn Khalaf by himself. In a scene of Caliphate of Abu Baqr, the character of Abu Bakr is seen wearing a thawb
spreading it's back on the ground which is haram in Islam.

As for the role of Omar is one of the first tools of the weakness of the work technically where the strange cold performance and the rigidity of features and divisions of his face, even with events that require a human interaction natural and unchanging.[opinion][54]

The series also missed the historical role of the Arab tribes allied to Quraish in the invasion of one of them, including the Ahbish of Kenana, as well as the role of Arab tribes in the invasion of the trench and Taif so that the work was limited to the tribe of Quraish as well as the tribe of Ghutfan and absent from work tribes that had a presence in the historical biography of these conversations, such as the tribe of Selim and Kenana The Bani Asad tribe, the Hawazin tribe and other Arab tribes on which the Arab community of the Arabian Peninsula was built at that time.[55][56]

According to the Sīrat, the Quraysh plan to assassinate the Prophet Muhammad before the Hijra, was delivered to the Qurayshi leaders by

Sīrat writers claim her as a wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, thus showing her as embodiment,[clarification needed] moreover romantically, also, with others, accepts Muhammad before accepting Islam. In all, content covering these topics may be seriously offensive to some Muslims.[citation needed
]

See also

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