Ummah (Islam)
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Ummah (Islam)
- 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.
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97000155
- info:lc/authorities/sh97000155
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh97000155#concept
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- Umma (Islam)
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Sources
- found: Work cat.: 91-941429: Djaka Soetapa. Concept of the Ummah according to the glorious Qurʾān in the context of Indonesian Society, 1991.
- found: Glassé, C. Concise encyc. Islam, 1991.
- found: Shorter. Encyc. Islam (Umma)
- found: Peters. Allah's Commonwealth: pp. 61-63 (Ummah)
- found: Rosenthal. Political thought in Medieval Islam, 1962: p. 22ff (Umma)
General Notes
- 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.
Change Notes
- 1997-01-06: new
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