At a glance
- Identifiers
- Wikidataimdbelcinemadhliz
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Contested: This record includes matters on which scholars differ. The speaker's views are labelled as his, and other views are marked where no cited source yet exists.
Factions, splits and schismsWars and campaigns
Screening Room
- Format
- Series · About Islam
- Countries
- SA
- Languages
- ar (original)
- Approach
- historical drama
- Depiction of sacred figures
- The Prophet: Not shown · Companions: Shown · Imams: Shown (Depicts Companions including Muawiya and members of the Prophet's household — the subject of public controversy at release.)
- Titles in other languages
- معاويةMuawiya
Reception
- Objection — public and scholarly debate in 2025 over depicting CompanionsDebated
- Fatwa. Al-Azhar's Senior Scholars Authority called viewing religiously unacceptable; Iraq's media regulator banned broadcast citing sectarian tension; Iran also banned it.
- Objection. Coverage framed the series as stoking Sunni-Shia tensions by dramatising the first fitna.
Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.
Check it against the record:Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan
Overview
"Muawiya" is a historical drama series released in 2025, produced in Saudi Arabia, directed by Tarek Al-Arian. Its leading performers include Lojain Ismail, Eyad Nassar, Souhir Ben Amara, Wael Sharaf and Yazan Khalil. An MBC-produced Arab series about Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, the strife and the early Umayyad state; its screening provoked wide controversy over the depiction of the Companions and the events of the strife. 1 2
Context and reception
This work deals with Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, the Umayyad era, and Damascus. It does not show the Prophet ﷺ in person. It provoked public and scholarly debate in 2025 over the depiction of the Companions. 1
Connections
- About
- Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan
- Set in
- The Umayyad Period· Damascus
- Features
- Lojain Ismail· Eyad Nassar· Souhir Ben Amara· Wael Sharaf· Yazan Khalil· Aïcha Ben Ahmed· Jamila Chihi· Asmaa Galal
- Directed by
- Tarek Alarian
- Written by
- Khaled Salah
- Broadcast by
- MBC 1
People and things also explored
Muawiya, Hassan and Hussein· The Death of Habib ibn Maslama at Damascus· Death of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan· Mokhtarnameh· Saqr Quraish· Ali declines to keep Muawiya in office· Amr ibn al-As· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)
Sources
- Wikidata
- IMDb
- elCinema
- Dhliz
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Muawiya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/muawiya-2025/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.