Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
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Muhammad: Legacy of the Prophet is a PBS documentary film about the life of Muhammad.
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Among the people in the film, the following are included:
- Karen Armstrong - former nun and author on Abrahamic religions
- John Voll - Professor of Islamic history, Georgetown University
- Hamza Yusuf Hanson - Muslim convert and scholar
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr - Well known Shi'a Twelver Islamic scholar, honored at the United Nations
- Hassan Qazwini - Islamic Center of America
- Reuven Firestone - Scholar of Islam and Judaism, Hebrew Union College
- Daisy Khan - executive director of Asma Society
- M. Cherif Bassiouni - Professor of Law, DePaul University, 1999 Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
- Mohammed Zakariya - Muslim convert and master Caligrapher
- Michael Wolf - Muslim convert and author of The Hadj
- Jameel Johnson
- Kevin James - Muslim convert, Chief Fire Marshall from New York City Fire Department
- Najah Bazzy - nurse
- Abdullah El-Amin - local Imam
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Muhammad was originally broadcast nationwide on December 18, 2002 on PBS and has since been rebroadcast on well over 600 individual PBS stations. The U.S. viewership is estimated to be over 10 million. The documentary received worldwide broadcast in many languages on National Geographic International in December 2003 and many other countries.
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Over 100 major newspapers including the New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, and the Catholic News Service reviewed the film. PBS also received over 5,000 emails in the first two weeks after broadcast responding to the film.
[edit] Community
Muhammad also included an educational outreach element to the film that was launched through IslamProject.org. The Islam Project's centerpiece were 30 community dialogues featuring civic leaders in major cities. In addition, the project also offered a dozen free lesson plans for teachers and students interested in educating themselves on Islam.
