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Ummah (Islam) (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 3

Preferred form: Ummah (Islam)

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Umma (Islam)

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Broader heading: Islam
Islam and state

Notes

Work cat.: 91-941429: Djaka Soetapa. Concept of the Ummah according to the glorious Qurʼān in the context of Indonesian Society, 1991.

Glassé, C. Concise encyc. Islam, 1991.

Shorter. Encyc. Islam (Umma)

Peters. Allah's Commonwealth: pp. 61-63 (Ummah)

Rosenthal. Political thought in Medieval Islam, 1962: p. 22ff (Umma)

Here are entered works on the concept of the Islamic community of believers as a whole, which transcends ethnic or political boundaries, and sometimes includes the idea of an Islamic state ruled by Islamic law.