Al-Marsad Newspaper: The writer, Badr bin Saud, commented on the presentation of two historical series during the coming Ramadan, namely Muawiyah and Imam Al-Shafi’i.
Sid And the imam Shafi’i
He said during an article published in Al-Riyadh newspaper entitled “Muawiyah… the writer of revelation and the owner of the state.” Next Ramadan, two important historical series will be shown, Muawiya and Imam Al-Shafi’i, both of which present two prominent personalities in Islamic history. Its rule was nearly a hundred years, and the second lived through the golden period of the rule of the Abbasid state, and it is the owner of the third school of thought in Islam, after the Hanafi and Maliki schools and before the Hanbali school. The biography of Imam Al-Shafi’i was previously presented in two works in 1997 and 2007, and on the other hand, the figure of Muawiya was dealt with in the year 2011, as part of the series Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein, and after it came the Omar series on the life of the Commander of the Faithful Al-Faruq in 2012, and the Omar series, along with the Muawiya series, which will be shown in the next Ramadan season. A million dollars for Muawiya.
Argument And disagreement
And he continued: Of course, this type of drama is always the subject of controversy and disagreement, but it does not last long and gradually recedes after the picture becomes clear. His details are still unknown to most people, and it is proven that he will monitor the most prominent stations in the life of Muawiya himself, and he will deal with his establishment of the Umayyad state, and the duty instead of preoccupation with side battles is to think about bringing these exceptional personalities to the memory of the world.
resurrection ertugrul
And he added: Just as the Turks did with works such as the resurrection of Ertugrul and the founder Othman, in which he dealt with the beginnings of the establishment of the Ottoman Empire, in the thirteenth century AD, and its transformation from a small Turkmen tribe into an empire, as they were presented on global platforms, and were seen in more than 150 countries, The two works contained many inaccuracies and wholesale errors, and the response to them is found in a previous dramatic work called Kingdoms of Fire, in which there is a refutation of the claims of the Ottomans and their exaggerated glorification, as well as an examination of the practices of Sultan Selim I against the Egyptians, specifically the days of the Ottoman occupation of Egypt in 1517.
the theory dramatic
And he continued: Specialists talk about what is known as dramatic theory, and say that it takes its moral standards and systems from imaginary worlds, and that its return to history or social reality comes from a matter of referring to what is known to people and nothing more, and therefore it is necessary to differentiate between historical drama that works on Its own construction of events, and relies on suspense, dazzling, and dramatic plot, and this does not mean deliberate distortion of facts and personalities, and between the documentary film that presents the facts impartially and does not interfere except in the way of its narration and aesthetics, and the imagined dramatic structure appears clearly in Western fantasy, and among its examples, turning Robin Hood into A legendary hero, although he is a thief and a bandit. Moreover, the hero in the Saudi series (Machine Gun) did not steal, in the first place, a bank, and what happened was due to dramatic necessities, and we need a different approach to a historical and professional Arab drama that can ask deep, difficult and heavy questions, as is the case. In historical works produced about JFK.
pioneering artistic
He added: In the year 2022, the Kingdom produced 24 cinematic films compared to Egypt, which produced only 22 films, and there is a sincere Saudi desire to extract artistic leadership within the Arab region for its benefit, which explains its attraction to professional competencies and Arab creators in various fields, as it has become a large market for artistic production. And it has the will and ability to advance Arab works, and transfer them from their old superficial paths, to frank criticism of the reality of Arab societies and their interests, and in the manner of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, in the issue of writing history as seen by ordinary people, and its dramatic projection on issues of daily life, in a way that opens the way to moving to Strong competition in international festivals.
credibility
He said: People these days take their historical information from film and television dramas, and do not pay attention to reliable books that chronicle events impartially and accurately, or that they are, at the very least, more considerate of the factor of credibility than dramatic materials, and some republican regimes have benefited from the reference of drama, and have employed their authority To serve its interests and present what it considers to be true from its point of view, especially during the sixties and seventies AD, and in a way that is useful in conveying its narrative and opinion, the socialist vision and the idea of the savior military commander, it was exploited in the films of that period, among them, Khaled bin Al-Walid, Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din and Antarah bin Shaddad. The new left, from the Arabs of the North, classifies the Muawiya series as a consecration of an authoritarian model, after their ancestors viewed Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky as virtuous and infallible. It is systematically organized by its opponents, and it must be restored to its normal position in the upcoming Ramadan drama, and in the memory of the viewer waiting to know the truth.