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Aug 27, 2024 · With Ahmad being a practicing Muslim, the film avoids another trope that Hollywood perpetuates even when aiming for positive representation – he is a sympathetic person not as a result of him ...
- Mohammad Zaheer
Aug 27, 2024 · Many who have long felt underrepresented or negatively portrayed in Western film connected with the way the movie portrayed Ahmad ibn Fadlan, based on an actual historical person. The 13th Warrior presented something unusual in a Hollywood scene sometimes attacked for its negative depictions of Muslims: an erudite, courageous Muslim hero presented with dignity.
Aug 24, 2024 · The way Bala portrays Ahmad's struggle is both raw and inspiring, highlighting the difficulty of staying true to one's beliefs in the face of intense emotional and physical desires.
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Upon Marco's arrival to the court of Kublai, Ahmad is not fond of him and does not accept him as a friend. On their first encounter Ahmad asks Marco what he has learned while he accompanied his tax collector Sanga through Cambulac. Marco describes what he saw and mentioned that he thinks it is smart to let the people pay their taxes if goods as wel...
In episode 4, Ahmad and Jingim visit Kaidu in Karakorum. Orus kills their horses, and injures Ahmad's leg, sending them fleeing. Jingim and Ahmad stake out and hide in a cave until they are rescued by Kublai Khan's men. While taking shelter in the cave, Ahmad is feverish and Jingim cares for him. Jingim asks him to talk about his mother and Ahmad s...
The character of Ahmad is based on historical figure Ahmad Fanakati, or "Ahmad of Fanakat" (احمد فناکتی), a Persian Muslim born in the town of Fanakat (or Banakat, as both variations have been written), on the banks of the Syr Darya in the Khara-Khitai khanate of Central Asia. He is historically noted for his massive corruption, while widely consid...
"Do you feel no shame for what you've done to your sworn lord?" "Shame is for the weak and the bored, Kaidu." (Kaidu and Ahmad, S2E6)
Feb 23, 2022 · For example, Ahmad ibn Fadlan was a 10th-Century chronicler from the Abbasid Caliphate, who encountered a group of Rus'. ... and which has been portrayed in much of Western popular culture until now.
- Luke Walpole
Oct 12, 2017 · Generally, Arabs and Muslims exist as one-dimensional characters in Hollywood cinematic works and appear almost sub-human. They are typically always a danger or a threat, ignorant, violent, and most importantly obsessed with kidnapping or killing as many Westerners as possible as they supposedly view them as the enemy.
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Oksana is the biological mother of Vice Regent Ahmad. After being torn away from her husband and son, believing they were both dead, Oksana was sold to a brothel on the outskirts of the Mongolian Empire under the rule of Kublai Khan. Neither she nor Ahmad knew the other was still alive. Oksana appears only in flashback Season 2 Episode 5 Lullaby. In his early days as a tax collector, Ahmad ...
