Frontline: Muslims

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Muslims seeks to enrich understanding of the multifaceted ways that Muslims live their faith. The program presents an intimate look at the lives of the Muslims in various cultures around the world. Through detailed portraits of people in their daily lives, viewers experience what it means to be Muslim in places as dissimilar as Nigeria, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Malaysia and the United States. By showing the diversity of thought, practice, lifestyle and interpretation of text, the film presents a balanced and informed portrait of Muslims and the diversity among them.

What does it mean to be a Muslim? How do Muslims reconcile the pressures of modern life with their Muslim traditions? Does Islam deserve its reputation as a patriarchal, authoritarian and anti-western religion? And what role does militancy play in the Muslim world?

These are among the questions explored by Muslims, a two-hour film examining the fundamental tenets of Islam and the different faces of its worldwide resurgence. With reports from Iran, Nigeria, Egypt, Malaysia, Turkey and the United States, Muslims illuminates the differing perspectives, conflicts, and tensions shaping the lives of Muslims today.

Muslims traces the social, historical, and political roots of the renewed interest in Islam worldwide.

Muslims was produced for Frontline by the Independent Production Fund.

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