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Children and youth Education Spirituality and Sufism

Screening Room

Format: Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released: 2002 CE · 1423 AH†
Countries: BD · PK · FR
Languages: bn (original)
Approach: drama of Muslim life
Depiction of sacred figures: The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable

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

Overview

A film by Tareque Masud from Bangladesh, winner of the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes, about a boy enrolled in a rural Islamic school between war and fanaticism. ¹ ²

People and things also explored

Najm al-Din al-Ghayti, Egypt's shaykh al-Islam· al-Sadr Sulayman al-Ubshithi· Molla 'Ala' al-Din 'Ali al-'Arabi· Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, shaykh al-Islam of Damascus· Burhan al-Din al-Hasib al-Nasib· Fatima bint Quraymizan· Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame· When Love Glorifies God

Sources

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islam.museum contributors. “The Clay Bird”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/tayr-al-tin-2002/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Najm al-Din al-Ghayti, Egypt's shaykh al-Islam

Najm al-Din al-Ghayti — Alexandria-born musnid of Egypt, 'the Bukhari of his age' per qadi Muhibb al-Din; holder of the Salahiyya mashyakha and Siryaqusiyya khanqah unsought, an unafraid enjoiner of right before amirs; his Mi'raj book read at the Azhar every Rajab.