We followed the trail left by the shadow. We pursued noble feelings, pure sorrow, harmless anger and universal truths on the silver screen, something normally dulled by violence and banality. While walking on the path made by film strips wrapped around the girth of the world we became fascinated by how Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is treated as a topic for the cinema. We investigated how well the life principles of the Prophet had been reflected in the cinema. The ummah of Prophet Muhammad keeps their desire for seeing him until the next world, and shuns any attempts to imprison him in the shallowness of an image; this being the case, we were curious how he had been represented in film. Here we go...
H. Hümeyra Şahin
Can We Make the Cinema into a Window of Truth?
Mesut Uçakan - Film Director
Şinasi Gündüz, PhD
The Use of Religious Figures in Cinema
İsmail Güneş - Film Director
The Message is a Materialistic Film
Nihal Bengisu Karaca
Will the Islamic World Produce Another "Message"?
İhsan Kabil - Cinema Critic
Sadık Yalsızuçanlar
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