Prophet of Islam: Mohamed gets
the biopic treatment
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There are controversial subjects, and then there is Mohamed. Yet the fear
of controversy appears not to
have deterred film-makers in Iran and Qatar, who are producing a pair of
rival biopics of the seventh-century
Prophet of Islam.
As a protagonist, the Prophet poses a unique challenge: much of the
Muslim world forbids his depiction on
screen. The Iranian director Majid Majidi, whose $30m (£19.8m) biopic
began shooting last October,
reportedly intends to show parts of the Prophet's body, though not his
face. While Iran's Shia population
may be flexible about such imagery, Sunni Muslims elsewhere are not.
Cairo's Sunni-led al-Azhar University
has already demanded the unfinished film be banned.
In December, in Sunni-majority Qatar, Alnoor Holdings, the media arm of
al-Hashemi construction group,
announced plans to spend $1bn on its own series of epic movies about
the life of Mohamed. The team has
hired the Islamic theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Lord of the Rings
producer Barrie Osborne as technical advisers.
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