{
 "id": "screen/muawiya-2025",
 "class": "screen",
 "slug": "muawiya-2025",
 "label": {
  "en": "Muawiya",
  "ar": "معاوية"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مسلسل عربي إنتاج إم بي سي عن معاوية بن أبي سفيان وأحداث الفتنة وصدر الدولة الأموية؛ أثار عرضه جدلاً واسعاً حول تصوير الصحابة وتقديم وقائع الفتنة.",
  "en": "An MBC series on Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan and the first fitna; its broadcast drew wide controversy over the depiction of Companions and early Islamic civil strife."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "factions-splits-schisms",
  "wars-and-campaigns"
 ],
 "data": {
  "format": "series",
  "relevance": "primary",
  "titles": [
   {
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "معاوية",
    "kind": "original"
   },
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "Muawiya",
    "kind": "broadcast"
   }
  ],
  "first_broadcast": {
   "edtf": "2025",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "countries": [
   "sa"
  ],
  "languages": {
   "original": [
    "ar"
   ]
  },
  "broadcaster": "group/mbc",
  "depiction": {
   "prophet": "not-shown",
   "companions": "shown",
   "imams": "shown",
   "note": "Depicts Companions including Muawiya and members of the Prophet's household — the subject of public controversy at release."
  },
  "approach": "historical-drama",
  "sensitivity": "contested",
  "reception": [
   {
    "kind": "objection",
    "by": "public and scholarly debate in 2025 over depicting Companions",
    "status": "debated",
    "sources": []
   },
   {
    "kind": "fatwa",
    "note": "Al-Azhar's Senior Scholars Authority called viewing religiously unacceptable; Iraq's media regulator banned broadcast citing sectarian tension; Iran also banned it.",
    "sources": [
     "source/newarab-muawiya-azhar-2025",
     "source/national-muawiya-2025"
    ]
   },
   {
    "kind": "objection",
    "note": "Coverage framed the series as stoking Sunni-Shia tensions by dramatising the first fitna.",
    "sources": [
     "source/nyt-muawiya-2025"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q131589489",
   "imdb": "tt14931294",
   "elcinema": "2077849",
   "dhliz": "series/muawia"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/imdb",
   "source/elcinema",
   "source/dhliz"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), screen-index lane; existence, year and identifiers verified against Wikidata and IMDb, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "«معاوية» مسلسل درامي تاريخي صدر سنة 2025 من إنتاج السعودية، من إخراج [[person/tarek-alarian|طارق العريان]]. ومن أبرز ممثليه [[person/lojain-ismail|لجين إسماعيل]]، و[[person/eyad-nassar|إياد نصار]]، و[[person/souhir-ben-amara|سهير بن عمارة]]، و[[person/wael-sharaf|وائل شرف]]، و[[person/yazan-khalil|يزن خليل]]. مسلسل عربي إنتاج إم بي سي عن معاوية بن أبي سفيان وأحداث الفتنة وصدر الدولة الأموية؛ أثار عرضه جدلاً واسعاً حول تصوير الصحابة وتقديم وقائع الفتنة. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "السياق والاستقبال",
     "markdown": "يتناول العمل [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|معاوية بن أبي سفيان]]، و[[period/umayyad|العصر الأموي]]، و[[place/damascus|دمشق]]. ولا يُظهر النبي شخصيًا. اعترضت عليه public and scholarly debate in 2025 over depicting Companions. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/muawiya-2025",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "\"Muawiya\" is a historical drama series released in 2025, produced in Saudi Arabia, directed by [[person/tarek-alarian|Tarek Al-Arian]]. Its leading performers include [[person/lojain-ismail|Lojain Ismail]], [[person/eyad-nassar|Eyad Nassar]], [[person/souhir-ben-amara|Souhir Ben Amara]], [[person/wael-sharaf|Wael Sharaf]] and [[person/yazan-khalil|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. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Context and reception",
     "markdown": "This work deals with [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan]], [[period/umayyad|the Umayyad era]], and [[place/damascus|Damascus]]. It does not show the Prophet in person. It provoked public and scholarly debate in 2025 over the depiction of the Companions. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/muawiya-2025",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "«معاویہ» ایک تاریخی ڈرامائی سیریز ہے جو 2025ء میں سعودی عرب میں بنی، جسے [[person/tarek-alarian|طارق العریان]] نے ڈائریکٹ کیا۔ اس کے نمایاں اداکاروں میں [[person/lojain-ismail|لجین اسماعیل]]، [[person/eyad-nassar|ایاد نصار]]، [[person/souhir-ben-amara|سہیر بن عمارہ]]، [[person/wael-sharaf|وائل شرف]] اور [[person/yazan-khalil|یزن خلیل]] شامل ہیں۔ ایم بی سی کی عربی سیریز جو معاویہ بن ابی سفیان، فتنہ کے واقعات اور اموی ریاست کے آغاز کے بارے میں ہے؛ اس کی نمائش نے صحابہ کی تصویر کشی اور فتنہ کے واقعات پیش کرنے پر وسیع بحث چھیڑ دی۔ {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیاق اور استقبال",
     "markdown": "یہ کام [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|معاویہ بن ابی سفیان]]، [[period/umayyad|اموی دور]] اور [[place/damascus|دمشق]] کو پیش کرتا ہے۔ اور نبی خود کردار کے طور پر نہیں دکھائے گئے۔ اس پر 2025ء میں صحابہ کی تصویر کشی کے بارے میں عوامی اور علمی بحث ہوئی۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/muawiya-2025",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  }
 },
 "degree": 28,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
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 "related": [
  "screen/muawiya-wal-hasan-wal-husayn-2011",
  "event/death-of-habib-ibn-maslama",
  "event/death-of-muawiya",
  "screen/mukhtarnameh-2011",
  "screen/saqr-quraysh-2002",
  "event/ali-declines-to-retain-muawiya",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}