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How to pronounce ummah in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms islam nation, islamic ummah, muslim ummah, umma
Type of community

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For Muslims, white represents purity and equality among believers or ummah.
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The ummah had many problems, most of it self inflicted by bad leaders and institutions.
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Ummah refers to the nationwide group to which the suspects belonged, according to the complaint.
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Instead, they considered themselves part of the Muslim ummah, the international Islamic political community.
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There are more science Nobel laureates from that little nation than in all of 1.5 billion ummah put together.
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Al-Juwayni argued that Islam is the goal of the ummah, so any ruler who deviates from this goal must be impeached.
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Since the 19th century, some Muslims had aspired to ummah to serve their common political, economic, and social interests.
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Al-Juwayni argued that Islam is the goal of the ummah, so any ruler that deviates from this goal must be impeached.
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The IsmailiFatimid dynasty of Cairo contested the Abbasids for even the titular authority of the Islamic ummah.
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  • The Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan; "moderate Muslims urge the Ummah to reject the terrorism of radical Muslims"
  • Ummah (Arabic: u0623u0645u0629u200Eu200E) is an Arabic word meaning "community". It is distinguished from Sha'b (Arabic: u0634u0639u0628u200Eu200E) which means a nation with common ancestry or geography. Thus, it can be said to be a supra-national community with a common history.
  • A religious community, usually referring to an Islamic one.
  • A single united Muslim nation.
  • Heb. ummah. A people, a nation, a sect. The word occurs about forty times in the Qur'an.
  • This term refers to the worldwide body of the Islamic community, the population of Dar es-Salaam as well as those Muslims living outside the lands where Islam rules. All Muslims would belong to the Islamic ummah, which is viewed as a universal brotherhood.
  • (pl. umam) : nation or community. This was a highly emotive word in early Islamic history in the time of the Prophet, and remains so among the Arabs today.
  • An Arabic term meaning religious community and followers of Prophet
  • Vicinity, a town of Asher (Jos 19:30).