ummah
noun
the Islamic community.
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ummah
American
[uhm-uh]
/ ˈʌm ə /
Or
umma
noun
Islam.
Ummah
British
/ ˈumə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of ummah
1880–85; < Arabic: literally, nation
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Islam had weathered this first hurdle, although the question of leadership had longer-term implications for the unity of the ummah.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
These conquests expanded the ummah, or the community of Muslims, into Iran, Spain, and the vast lands in between.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
They call on supporters to reject the nations where they live and embrace instead a devotion to the ummah, the global community of Muslims.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
Their national or ethnic loyalties had been supplanted by loyalty to their co-religionists, the global community of Muslims, known as the ummah.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2010
They are "the mother," "mamma," "emma," "ummah," or "the woman."
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant
In June 2018, Ira and her father were summoned to a hotel near the school, she says, where she met Bechi's mother, Nyai Shofwatul Ummah.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ummah for Earth, an alliance-led initiative that aims to empower Muslim communities facing climate change, is urging people to pledge to adopt one eco-friendly practice during Ramadan.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2023
He became the first Caliph, meaning “successor”: the head of the Ummah, the man who represented both spiritual and political authority to Muslims.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
“Instead of being a lonely kid lost in Brooklyn with limited English proficiency,” it said, “he was part of a worldwide online community — the Ummah — supporting an Islamic religious movement.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2018
Butt was described as increasing his operational security and by 2017 worked at the Ummah fitness centre in east London, where he met his fellow attacker Rachid Redouane.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2017
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