Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of ummah.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan
Examples
“The umma is the true master of this discipline and has been for 1400 years.”
“You simply have to laugh at the moral hypocrisy of the Islamic world and "umma".”
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“The "umma" and Islamic nations are totally silent despite the genocide going on.”
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“Its manifesto declares that it is part of a worldwide Muslim "umma" or community linked by radical Shia fundamentalism.”
“The government needs to start understanding how the middle east operates and the inner workings of the Muslim world and the "umma".”
“Dr Andrew Bostom writes, "And establishing global Sharia is a VERY popular view within the Muslim" umma "as I have discussed earlier: Overwhelming Muslim majorities i.e., better than two-thirds (see the weighted average calculated here) of a well-conducted survey of the world's most significant, and populous Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries, want these hideous, immoderate outcomes:" strict application "of Shari'a, Islamic Law, and a global Caliphate.”
“Qadri opines that, the problem of terrorism has been bringing the Muslim umma and Pakistan in particular into disrepute, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Muslims opposes and condemns terrorism in unequivocal terms.”
“Islamofascist Terrorists kill because Allah commands them to kill all kafirs (non-believers in Allah) and even other Muslims who do NOT AGREE with their METHODS of eliminating all resistance to the umma (worldwide Islam).”
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“Fleeing persecution in Mecca in 622, he and the Muslim community the umma had migrated to Medina, 250 miles to the north.”
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“Mecca was determined to destroy the umma and a bitter conflict ensued.”
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chained_bear "People find many things in their religions—a sense of purpose and metaphysical explanations for human suffering, for example. They may also find a sense of community—the umma of Islam or the neighborliness of a small-town church."
—Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2006), 256 Mar 17, 2009