At a critique session on the series Muawiya held at the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, history and Islamic experts, and film critics identified its primary objectives as whitewashing the Umayyads ...

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A fierce religious identity dominates the Sunni-majority nation, with principles of the Koran, conservative Sunni teachings known as Wahhabism and strict Islamic Shariah law present in all aspects ...