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Desert Dancer

راقص الصحراء

Based on the true story of an Iranian dancer who founded a secret dance group in Tehran despite the ban; starring Reece Ritchie and Freida Pinto.

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Identifiers
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Review
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Music and its permissibilityDissent, heresy and freethought

Screening Room

Format
Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released
2014 CE · 1435 AH†
Countries
GB · AE
Approach
drama of Muslim life

Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.

Overview

A film based on the true story of an Iranian dancer who founded a secret dance troupe in Tehran despite the ban; starring Riz Ahmed. 1 2

People and things also explored

Blind imitation (taqlid)· Hadr (blood and value wasted: no retaliation, no compensation)· Hajr (abandonment and shunning: its rules for a believer, a sinner, an innovator and a wife)· Hamm (resolve or intention of the heart, and its legal effect)· Hawa (desire, and the duty to resist it)· Hazl (jest in speech, and its effect on contracts, acts and belief)· Hija' (satire and insult in verse: its rules)· Ilhad (deviation from religion, and related terms)

Sources

  1. Wikidata
  2. IMDb
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islam.museum contributors. “Desert Dancer”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/raqis-al-sahra-2014/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Blind imitation (taqlid)

Wajdi reports, without naming them, that scholars of Islam held the faith of a mere imitator unacceptable, because imitation can be of falsehood as well as truth. He reads Islam as calling each responsible person to use reason in inference and deduction, as protection against the rigidity that the ill-intentioned exploit. The statement is attributed to the author's report.