''The Muslim Jesus'' is a 2007

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documentary directed and produced by

Irshad Ashraf Irshad Ashraf is a British documentary film maker with a reputation for making stylish, visually innovative documentary films about history, art and politics. After studying film theory in London in the mid 1990s, Irshad moved to Tokyo to teach ...

, and commissioned and narrated by

Melvyn Bragg Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is best known for his work with ITV as editor and presenter of ''The South Bank Show'' (1978–2010), and for the BBC Radio 4 documenta ...

. The documentary is about the Islamic view of Jesus. It was broadcast by

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on 19 August 2007.

Overview

The one-hour special uses the

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as its main source, and draws on interviews with scholars and historians. It features commentary from

Hamza Yusuf Hamza Yusuf (born: Mark Hanson; 1958) is an American Islamic neo-traditionalist, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching metho ...

, who was filmed quite extensively for this documentary.

Background

The narrator

said, "I was fascinated by the idea ... Jesus was such a prominent figure in Islam but most people don't know that." He added: "I hope it will provoke among Muslims the feeling they are included in television." Hamza Yusuf said, "In the Christian narrative the most central and fundamental point of Christianity is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ but Islam basically denies that. The Quran states that it was made to appear that Jesus was crucified as when the Romans captured Jesus God organised a rescue operation."

Appearances

(Muslim scholar of

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, California) *

Ajmal Masroor Ajmal Masroor ( bn, আজমল মসরূর; born 19 October 1971) is a Bangladeshi-born British imam, broadcaster and politician. He is well known for being a television presenter on political discussions and on Muslim channels. Early lif ...

(Imam) *

Usama Hasan Usama Hasan is a British astronomer and former academic. He is a former senior lecturer in business information systems at Middlesex University, and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.Muslim academic forced to retract evolution claim - ...

(Imam of Al-Tawhid Masjid, London) *Ahmad Thomson (co-author of ''Jesus Prophet of Islam'') *

Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and m ...

(religious historian) *Ahmed Babikir (Imam of

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, London) * Sarah Joseph OBE (editor of

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) *Mohammed Saeed Bahmanpour (writer of ''

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'') *

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(rapper) *Sukina Douglas (member of

Poetic Pilgrimage Poetic Pilgrimage is a British Muslim hip-hop duo, founded by Muneera Rashida and Sukina Abdul Noor in 2002. ''Hip Hop Hijabis'' documentary ''Hip Hop Hijabis'' is a 2015 Al Jazeera documentary about Poetic Pilgrimage, directed by filmmaker M ...

) *Muneera Williams (member of Poetic Pilgrimage) *

Ibrahim Mogra Ibrahim Mogra is an imam from Leicester and former Assistant Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain. Early life Mogra was born in 1965 into a family of Gujarati Indian origin and emigrated to the UK at the age of 18 to study and s ...

(Chair, interfaith relations

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) *

Abdur Raheem Green Abdur Raheem Green (born: Anthony Waclaw Gavin Green; 1964), is a British revert to Islam who is known in some Muslim communities for his work in Dawah, both in televised formal settings and informal contexts such as Hyde Park's Speakers Corner. ...

(visit administrator of

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)

References

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Overview

Background

Appearances

See also

References