NJOMACS

This paper is conceptual in nature, which seeks to explore the sustainability of communicating history captured in the Qur'an and Hadith through TV Series. TV series (Musalsaltat), which are categorised as audio-visual non-fictional contents about Islamic history and civilisation have surfaced the 21" Century as a way of preserving and simplifying the complex scenarios highlighted in Divine scriptures. The scenarios documented in text format, perhaps, appears too complex for audience to understand and hence leave a compelling gap that producers of Islamic TV Series harness in remaking them to audio-visual form. This paper is an attempt to discuss the connection between the portrayal of Islamic history in TV Series and the [un]sustainability of Islam; patterns of narration and historical accuracies. Using the Seven storylines developed by Soini and Birkeland 2014, this paper argues the potentiality of TV Series in spite of the different scholarly positions on its permissibility or otherwise as a platform for cultural and religious content creation. The paper therefore concludes that the remake of Islamic history in TV Series, is a way of sustaining Islamic history and civilisation.