With the escalation of the Egyptian-Turkish dispute since the military coup in Egypt in the summer of 2013, the Egyptian media spared no effort to attack Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies in the region, so that the matter gradually turns to attacking everything that is Turkish, starting from the history of the Ottoman caliphate and not ending with Turkish drama.
The years of the rule of the current president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, witnessed the entry of the Egyptian religious establishment on the line of attacking Turkey and Erdogan, but no one expected that the matter would reach the Egyptian Dar al-Iftaa busy warning of famous Turkish dramas, as the Global Fatwa Index of Erdogan said that Erdogan is using all his weapons And also his soft powers to achieve hegemony in the Middle East, and he wants the Ottoman Empire back again.
In his report published in the local media, the index added that Erdogan did not and will not hesitate to revive his dream of using all powers, politically or religiously, or even through soft power through cultural and artistic works.
He continued, "The best evidence for this is the series Valley of the Wolves, and the series of the resurrection of Artgrel, which the Turkish President stressed is an important response to those who underestimate the capabilities of Turkey and its people."
Polat Alemdar and Ertugrul Shah .. |
Although the Egyptian Dar al-Iftaa report spoke at length about what he described as "Erdogan's employment of the rhetoric in the Turkish interior to be supportive of Erdogan's expansionist actions and the material and political gains he gained", the pioneers of the networking sites did not stop much at those details, which they saw contradicting the position of Dar Al-Ifta itself Supporting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi all the time.
What clearly sparked the pioneers of the communication sites is the official Dar Al-Ifta’s talk about Turkish dramas, which have gained wide popularity in the Arab world, especially the series “The Resurrection of Artgrel”, which activists have said reinforces Islamic values and morals, and the house should support it instead of warning it, considering that The report mainly targets Erdogan, not Turkish drama.
Some also mocked the absence of a similar warning against Egyptian drama, especially Ramadan, which promotes "prostitution, drugs and moral decay", and others spoke of the silence of the religious establishment on the torture of detainees in Egyptian prisons.
The Egyptian Apostate House Fatwa prohibits the viewing of two historical series, the Resurrection of Artegrel and the Valley of the Wolves |
The Egyptian Dar Al-Iftaa prohibits watching the Artgrel series because it is completely devoid of any scenes of modesty. - Mansour Salem (@ MansourSalem1) February 9, 2020 |
Another criticism of the Dar al-Iftaa report, where some saw that its unintended consequence would be the promotion of Turkish drama in the sense that every forbidden is desirable, and that this warning is an invitation to the world and not only the Egyptians to watch the Turkish drama, adding, "Has Dar al-Ifta abandoned its official religious message in Show the forbidden and the halal and started working as a publicity representative for Turkish series? "
A series reminiscent of the nature of Muslims’s qualities, and one of the most remarkable things I saw for the Muslim family, and after it all fell into the eyes of all Arab series that call for the destruction of these qualities regardless of production, a series that respects and who forbids this work. twitter.com/xddVbRLkPV - Hossam al Noaimi (@HossamAlnoaimi) February 9, 2020 |
Although Dar Al-Iftaa did not go as far as prohibiting viewing these series, the pioneers of the networking sites exchanged sarcastic jokes about the Egyptian religious establishment's approach to Turkish drama, and others raced to express their joy at the report's failure to touch on other Turkish series that follow them.
Praise be to God, the series Osman Tala Halal 😂😂😂, on the occasion of the Egyptian Dar Al Iftaa, prohibits the series Artgrel and the Valley of the Wolves. - Abdullah Quwaila (@abdullah_kweila) February 9, 2020 |
Dar Al Iftaa Al-Masria warns against watching the series # Resurrection of Artgrel ... and the Valley of the Wolves! |
It is noteworthy that the series "The Resurrection of Artgrel" is a five-part Turkish drama epic, which tells the biography of Artgrel bin Suleiman Shah, the father of Osman Shah to whom the Ottoman caliphate is affiliated, and the series during the past five years formed a local and international event, after it was watched by about three billion people around the world , And was broadcast on the screens of many countries.
The events of the series took place in the 13th century AD, and it shows the biography of the hero Ertugrul bin Suleiman Shah, the leader of the Kayi tribe, who is a Muslim Oghuz Muslim (Turkmen) and Osman I's father, the founder of the Ottoman Empire (656 AH - 1258 CE / 726 AH - 1326 CE).
And the series won wide viewing in the Arab world, despite the reservations of some researchers who saw that it ignored the factor of accuracy sometimes for the sake of drama and suspense.
As for the Valley of the Wolves series, it introduces the new identity of Turkey indirectly through drama, and was interested in photographing the changes that the country has witnessed in the past years, and also touched on foreign policy issues, and Israel objected to some of its episodes, and considered them offensive to them.