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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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• Umma (Islam)

• Dangerous Concepts to Attack Islam and Consolidate the Western Culture, by Hizb ut-Tahrir (PDF at hizb-ut-tahrir.info)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Islamic State (1998), by Taqi al-Din Nabhani (PDF at ht-bangladesh.info)
• How the Khilafah Was Destroyed (2000), by Abd al-Qadim Zallum (PDF with commentery at khilafahbooks.com)
• Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist, by Ruhollah Khomeini, trans. by Hamid Algar (multiple formats at al-islam.org)
• Funds in the Khilafah State (Al-Amwal fi Dowlat Al-Khilafah) (second edition, 1988), by Abd al-Qadim Zallum (PDF at khilafah.com)

• The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Adeeb Khalid (HTML at UC Press)

• Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Rachel M. Scott (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Juan Ricardo Cole (HTML at UC Press)

• Islamising Indonesia: The Rise of Jemaah Tarbiyah and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) (2008), by Yon Machmudi (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Workshop for Morality: The Islamic Creativity of Pesantren Daarut Tauhid in Bandung, Java (2008), by Dindin Solahudin (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• A Quest for True Islam: A Study of the Islamic Resurgence Movement Among the Youth in Bandung, Indonesia (2007), by Rifki Rosyad (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf, by F. Gregory Gause (HTML at Mcgill)

• Islam Between Truth and False Allegations: A Response to the False Allegations Against Islam (ca. 2000), by Ahmad Shalabi, Ahmad Omar Hashem, Ahmad Kamal Abu al-Majd, Abd al-Sabur Shahin, Abd al-Sabur Marzuq, and Mahmud Hamdi Zaqzuq, trans. by Lahcen Haddad, contrib. by Hamed Taher (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Rationality of Islam (Karachi: Islamic Seminary Publications, 1978) (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Passing on the Faith: Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), ed. by James Heft (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, by I. A. Ibrahim (illustrated HTML with commentary at islam-guide.com)
• Der Islam: Geschichte, Glaube, Recht (in German; Leipzig: R. Haupt, 1909), by Martin Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ever Thought About the Truth?, by Hârun Yahya (multiple formats at harunyahya.info)
• The Future of Islam (London: K. Paul, Trench and Co., 1882), by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Inquiries About Islam (1986 edition), by Mohamad Jawad Chirri (HTML at al-islam.org)
• Islam, ed. by John Alden Williams (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Islam at the Cross Roads: A Brief Survey of the Present Position and Problems of the World of Islam (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1923), by De Lacy O'Leary
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Islam, Turkey, and Armenia, and How They Happened: Turkish Mysteries Unveiled (St. Louis: Press of C. B. Woodward Co., c1898), by Sadik Shahid Bey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mahomet and His Successors (Works of Washington Irving, v12-13; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
  • Volume I: page images at MOA
  • Volume II: page images at MOA
• Mohammedanism: Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State (1916), by C. Snouck Hurgronje (Gutenberg text)
• The Rebuke of Islam (5th edition; London: United Council for Missionary Education, 1920), by W. H. T. Gairdner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at muhammadanism.org
• The Religion of The Crescent: Being the James Long Lectures on Muhammadanism (third edition, revixed; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. S. Gorham, 1910), by William St. Clair Tisdall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Religion of the Crescent, or, Islam: Its Strength, Its Weakness, Its Origin, Its Influence (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1895), by William St. Clair Tisdall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reproach of Islam (London: Student Volunteer Missionary Union, 1909), by W. H. T. Gairdner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reproach of Islam (3rd edition; London: Church Missionary Society, 1910), by W. H. T. Gairdner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sindhu Desh: A Study in its Separate Identity Through the Ages, by Jī. Em. Sayyidu (HTML at gmsyed.org)
• Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts (1997), ed. by Paul Peachey, George F. McLean, and John Kromkowski (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1909), by Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, ed. by Henry Baerlein (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala (second edition; London: J. Murray, 1909), by Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, ed. by Henry Baerlein (Gutenberg text)
• Études sur l'Islam au Sénégal (2 volumes in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1917), by Paul Marty
  • Tome I (Les Personnes): page images at Gallica
  • Tome I (Les Personnes): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Tome II (Les Doctrines et les Institutions): page images at Gallica
• Mahomet, Founder of Islam, by Gladys M. Draycott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The New World of Islam (second impression; London: Chapman and Hall, 1922), by Lothrop Stoddard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Revolt in Arabia (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by C. Snouck Hurgronje, contrib. by Richard J. H. Gottheil
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Arabia, the Cradle of Islam: Studies in the Geography, People and Politics of the Peninsula, With an Account of Islam and Mission-Work (based on the fourth edition; Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, c1912), by Samuel Marinus Zwemer, contrib. by James S. Dennis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Jew, the Gypsy, and El Islam (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1898), by Richard Francis Burton, ed. by W. H. Wilkins
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Jew, the Gypsy, and El Islam (second edition; London: Hutchinson and Co., 1898), by Richard Francis Burton and W. H. Wilkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Priorities of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase (ca.1990), by Yusuf Qaradawi (HTML at islambasics.com)
• Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues, by Mirza Tahir Ahmad (PDF at alislam.org)
• Milestones, by Sayyid Quṭb (Javascript-dependent PDF at kalamullah.com)
• Spiritual Discourses, by Murtaza Mutahhari, ed. by Salman Tawhidi, trans. by Aluddin Pazargadi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Mohammedan World of To-Day: Being Papers Read at the First Missionary Conference on Behalf of the Mohammedan World Held at Cairo April 4th-9th, 1906 (New York et al: F. H. Revell Co., c1906), ed. by Samuel Marinus Zwemer, E. M. Wherry, and James L. Barton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion And Politics in the Muslim World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Mohammed Ayoob (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race (second edition; London: W. B. Whittingham and Co., 1888), by Edward Wilmot Blyden, contrib. by Samuel Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Apology for Mohammed and the Koran (London: J. Davy and Sons, 1869), by John Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discovering Islam (c2001), by Moustafa Al-Qazwini (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Words, by Said Nursi (HTML in Turkey)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.