The Trans- Ummah, the Extended State, and the Question of Universality (A study in the Meanings of the Quranic Texts)

Mohammed Amezzian

The central idea around which this paper rotates is that there is- in the Islamic perspective of political sociology- a mutual relationship between the Ummah and the state. The assumption here is that the essential characteristics of the state stem from the characteristics of the Ummah. As a demographic, ...