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The Kufic script (Arabic: الخط الكوفي, romanized: al-khaṭṭ al-kūfī) is a style of Arabic script, that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts.
An Arab television drama or Arab soap opera (also known as musalsal (Arabic: مسلسل), plural musalsalat (Arabic: مسلسلات)) is a television form of melodramatic serialized fiction. [1] The musalsalat are similar in style to Latin American telenovelas . [ 1 ]
This is a list of films, television serials and programmes related to Islamic civilization, i.e. Islam, Islamic history and Islamic culture. For ease of classification this article defines the following terms as such: "Documentary" refers to educational films and series of an informative nature.
Mahomet (French: Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le Prophète, literally Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet) is a five-act tragedy written in 1736 by French playwright and philosopher Voltaire. It received its debut performance in Lille on 25 April 1741 .
Ta'zieh, primarily known from the Iranian tradition, is a Shia Islam ritual that reenacts the death of Hussein (the Islamic prophet Muhammad's grandson) and his male children and companions in a brutal massacre on the plains of Karbala, Iraq in the year 680 AD.
Muhammad: The Final Legacy or Qamar Bani Hashim is a 2008 historical Arab drama series directed by Mohammad Sheikh Najib, which aired on the Islam Channel. [1] [2] It is the first drama series which has depicted the life of Muhammad mostly maintaining the Islamic traditions and depictional restrictions.
Shaheen is a 1980 Pakistani historical and Islamic drama television series originally broadcast on PTV. The series was based on the novel of the same name by Naseem Hijazi and dramatised by Saleem Ahmad. Set in the 1490s in Granada, the series entails the glorious past of the Muslims and revolves around their downfall in Andalus (present-day ...
The Thuluth script, used during the medieval times, is known as one of the oldest scripts to exist. The script was used in mosques and for Quranic text due to the appearance of the text. The Nasta'liq script is used more for Persian than Arabic scripting. Because of the upward slant to the left, the script is seen as different from the other ...