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 "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,
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  "people",
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 ],
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 "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"
  }
 },
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 "degree": 28,
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   "inverse": false
  },
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   "inverse": false
  },
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  },
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   "to": "person/lojain-ismail",
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   "inverse": false
  },
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   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
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   "inverse": false
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   "to": "person/yazan-khalil",
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   "inverse": false
  },
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   "to": "person/aicha-ben-ahmed",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
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   "to": "person/jamila-chihi",
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   "inverse": false
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   "to": "person/tarek-alarian",
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  },
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   "to": "person/khaled-salah",
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  "screen/muawiya-wal-hasan-wal-husayn-2011",
  "event/death-of-habib-ibn-maslama",
  "event/death-of-muawiya",
  "screen/mukhtarnameh-2011",
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  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun",
  "building/qasr-shams-al-muluk"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}