The Imam (2017)

Original title

الإمام

Genre

biographical film, historical film

Country

Qatar

Length

1 season, 32 episodes

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This historical series tells the full life story of the Muslim scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal from his early family life through his studies to his death. It also covers the political and religious events of the Abbasid period including Islamic conquests and theological conflicts.

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What happens

The Imam series or Bin Hanbal series or Ahmed bin Hanbal series, is a historical television series produced by Qatar Media Foundation, which carried out the work in cooperation with Al-Buraq Qatari Media Production Company, For the Ramadan show (1438 AH / 2017 AD) with the participation of a large group of artists from seven Arab countries with more than 70 artists and representatives, and the implementation of the serial through documentation and dramatic treatment and film production and took the production of the series more than two years between 2015 and 2016, more than a full year. The series tells the full biography of the four imams of the Muslims from the Sunnis and the community Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the events that took place from the beginning of his family and social life and even began his scientific life in the request of forensic science (isnad) from Muhammad and the Quran until his death, and also reviews the period of the rule of the Abbasid state, Islamic events and conquests, the emergence of the Mu'tazili and the emergence of the plight of the creation of the Quran, and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal confronted them. The series was executed and illustrated in Lebanon and Turkey and requires serial production to build complete decorations for the cities where the events of the series such as Makkah, Ammouriyah, Baghdad and battle sites fought by the Abbasid State. The producer launched an official website to introduce the series in four languages, including Arabic, English, In turn, the state-run Qatar Television broadcast it exclusively on its screen during Ramadan. The series was scheduled to be ready for display during the month of Ramadan ( 1436 H / 2016 ), but the conditions of obtaining visas to Syrian representatives involved in the work prevented this, where the company intended to produce several countries for photography was the first Morocco and then Algeria, India, Uzbekistan and Spain, finally settling on Turkey and Lebanon, where the series was filmed between them after long periods of delay. The series is directed by Abdel Bari Abul-Khair and composed by a group of Syrian and Arab actors, including the Syrian artist Mehyar Khaddour who embodied the figure of the Imam and the Syrian artist Salloum Haddad, The artist Jiana Eid, the body of the personality of the mother of Imam Ahmad, the artist Moon Khalaf, the artist Qassem Melho, the artist Muhannad Qutish, the artist Mohammed Khair Jarrah and the artist Marah Jabr, who embodied the role of the wife of Imam Ahmad, the artist Ruaa Yassin and other artists. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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