ummah
noun
the Islamic community.
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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These conquests expanded the ummah, or the community of Muslims, into Iran, Spain, and the vast lands in between.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Their role as caliphs was in protecting the ummah and providing a political framework in which sharia law could prosper – it was in the Abbasid period that Islamic law was truly developed and codified.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
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
They started pooling $20 monthly to donate to charity, and organically, Ummah Giving Circle was born.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2021
For Shia Muslims, the central idea was that only descendants of Muhammad should lead the Ummah.
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
But if you dig a little further some interesting facts emerge about the gym in east London where he used to train - the Ummah Fitness Centre in Ilford.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2017
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