Sentence examples for ummah a from inspiring English sources

"Crusaders, Jews and Hindus are now united and have come forward to wipe out the Islamic Ummah," a chart detailing the state of "The Bleeding Muslim World" warns, referring to the Muslim community.

After converting at a local mosque, he kept guzzling beer for a while; the switch to a strict, puritanical path came during an early brush with jail.Some things are obvious: in a lonely, fractured world, the bonds of the ummah, a global chain of "brothers" who agree on ultimate matters, had great appeal to Mr Storm.

His compassion wasn't limited to his ummah, a Muslim nation, but to his qawm, his society-at large.

So that the newest forms of communication become an instrument for furthering the notion of a virtual ummah, an Islamic community, where people can feel a common history, a common identity, and a common sense of victimization, whether there's truth in this or not.

The alliance calls the FBI description of the Ummah "an offensive mischaracterization".  (Abdullah El-Amin, an imam at the largest African American Detroit mosque, told the New York Times that he had heard Abdullah discuss a separatism that would be "sort of like the Pennsylvania Dutch have their own communities and stuff". There are similar comments from Abdullah in the criminal complaint).

"Yes, the Internet has created a virtual ummah," Olivier Roy, an expert on political Islam at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, wrote to me recently.

Their emphasis on the universal community of Islam (the ummah) sees a rejection of localised forms of the religious expression and instead a propagation of "proper" orthodox Sunni Islam that looks towards Mecca for inspiration.

Islamic sermon from 8-27-05 on the importance of preserving the unity of the Muslim ummah by a Wahhabi scholar.

Islamic sermon on the importance of preserving the unity of the Muslim ummah by a Wahhabi scholar.

Islamic sermon, given in Birmingham, sometime in 2004, on terrorism and the importance of unity of the Muslim ummah by a Wahhabi scholar.

Islamic sermon, given in Birmingham sometime in 2004, on the dangers to unity of the Muslim ummah by a Wahhabi scholar.