concept

Ummah

Beliefs & concepts

The community of believers as a named Islamic social-creed term. Not nation as a modern state alone, and not church as a Christian body.

Also known as Umma · Ummah

Islam

  • Ummah appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an speaks of ummah — a community or nation under God — including a middle community and communities of earlier messengers. Islamic community-speech in that revelation, not a modern nation-state invent and not ummah as ethnicity alone.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).