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 "id": "screen/umar-2012",
 "class": "screen",
 "slug": "umar-2012",
 "label": {
  "en": "Omar",
  "ar": "عمر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مسلسل تاريخي إنتاج إم بي سي يتابع سيرة عمر بن الخطاب من الجاهلية إلى استشهاده خليفةً، ولا يظهر فيه النبي ولا يُسمع صوته.",
  "en": "An MBC historical series following the life of Umar ibn al-Khattab from the Jahiliya to his assassination as caliph; the Prophet is neither shown nor heard."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people",
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "prophets",
  "wars-and-campaigns"
 ],
 "data": {
  "format": "series",
  "relevance": "primary",
  "titles": [
   {
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عمر",
    "kind": "original"
   },
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "Omar",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "Farouk Omar",
    "kind": "broadcast"
   }
  ],
  "first_broadcast": {
   "edtf": "2012",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "countries": [
   "sa"
  ],
  "languages": {
   "original": [
    "ar"
   ],
   "dubbed": [
    "fa",
    "tr",
    "ur",
    "id"
   ]
  },
  "seasons": 1,
  "episodes": 31,
  "broadcaster": "group/mbc",
  "depiction": {
   "prophet": "not-shown",
   "companions": "shown",
   "imams": "shown",
   "note": "The Prophet is never shown; Companions including Ali are played by actors — a depiction Sunni religious authorities have often objected to."
  },
  "approach": "historical-drama",
  "sensitivity": "figurative-prophet",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q3184088",
   "imdb": "tt2063241",
   "elcinema": "2012535"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/imdb",
   "source/elcinema"
  ],
  "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"
  },
  "reception": [
   {
    "kind": "fatwa",
    "note": "Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy and Saudi Dar al-Ifta opposed the series for depicting the Companions; other scholars including Salman al-Ouda and Yusuf al-Qaradawi approved it.",
    "sources": [
     "source/thr-omar-fatwa-2012",
     "source/national-omar-2012"
    ]
   },
   {
    "kind": "protest",
    "note": "Pre-broadcast campaign against the series ('No to showing Farouk Omar'); defenders argued dramatising the Companions has precedent.",
    "sources": [
     "source/egyptind-omar-2012",
     "source/alarabiya-omar-2012"
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 36,
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   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "about",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "period/prophetic-era",
   "type": "set_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "period/rashidun",
   "type": "set_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "set_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/medina",
   "type": "set_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/samer-ismail",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ghassan-massoud",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ghanem-zrelli",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/qasim-melho",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/fethi-haddaoui",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mohammed-hassan-el-joundi",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/may-skaf",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muna-wassef",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/hatem-ali",
   "type": "directed_by",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/walid-saif",
   "type": "written_by",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/mbc-1",
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   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/qatar-tv",
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   "inverse": false
  }
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 "related": [
  "event/hijra",
  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "event/death-of-abdullah-ibn-ubayy",
  "event/death-of-the-prophet",
  "screen/hayat-muhammad-2011",
  "screen/muhammad-khatam-al-anbiya-2002",
  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/bayat-al-ridwan"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}