Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Purpose and Focus of the Book -- Theoretical Background and Current Need for This Study -- Exegetical References -- Chapter 1 Conceptual Meaning of Ummah in the Meccan Verses of the Qurʼān -- Ummah in the Literature -- Analysis of the word ummah in the Meccan verses of the Qurʼān -- Ummah, Appointed Term (ajal), and Associated Responsibility -- Ummah, Religion, and Forefathers -- Ummah and al-Kitāb -- Ummah and Imām -- Ummah and the Covenant (al-Mīthāq)

A Possible Order of a Global Ummah Composed of Different Umam? -- Ummah, Ummī Prophet, and the Global Ummah -- Ummah and Sovereignty -- Leadership, the Book, and Justice -- Land (Territory) -- Ummah and Nation-State -- Al-Ummah al-Wāḥidah and Its Differentiation across Human History -- Ummah of the Prophets -- Dealing with Religious Diversity -- Confederates of Evil (al-Aḥzāb) -- The Reformers (Muṣliḥūn) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Ummah in the Medinan Verses of the Qurʼān -- The Notion of a Shared Ummah: Rights and Obligations -- Prophet Abraham (Ibrāhīm) Was an Ummah

Defining the Ideology and Outlook of the Muslim Ummah through Prophet Abraham -- The Best Religion (Dīn) is Following Millat Ibrāhīm "al-Ḥanīf" -- Al-Manāsik (the Rituals) -- The Middle Ummah (al-Ummah al-Wasaṭ) and the Witness (Shahāda) -- Ummah from Ahl Al-Kitāb (Jews and Christians) -- The Best Ummah (Khayr Ummah) Ever Raised Up for Humankind -- Ummah of the Book and Governance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Ummah in the Medina Constitution -- Al-Muʼminūn ("The Believers") -- Decrees Addressing the Believers -- Decrees Addressing the Jews

Decrees Addressing Ahl as-Ṣaḥīfah (the People of the Constitution) -- Sacred Land (ḥaram) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Ummah and Political Governance-Comparative -- The Ummah and the Aristotelian Polis -- Khalīfa and Political Animal -- Khalīfa -- Khalīfa in Early, Classical, and Modern Exegesis -- Khilāfa in Islamic Literature -- Aristotelian Polis and Qurʼanic Ummah -- Polis and Ummah: Medium Whereby Citizens Exercise Virtuous Activity -- Difference between Law and Sharīʹah -- Rule of Law (Polis and Ummah) -- Resolving Conflict by Invoking Competing Virtues in Aristotle and the Qur'ān

Community and State in Contemporary Political Theory -- Polis and Constitution versus Ummah and al-Kitāb 222 -- Introducing Reforms through the Constitution -- The Characters of Constitution and the Citizen Mirror Each Other -- Constitutional Law Transformed into Community Norm -- Polis and Justice versus Ummah and Wasaṭiyyah -- Justice as a "Mean" and the Concept of "Wasaṭ" -- Understanding "Prophet Abraham Was an Ummah" through Aristotle's "Unity of Virtues" -- Ummah Attains Justice through Shūra (Collective Judgment of Khulafā)

Justice Is Manifested in the "Common Good" Resulting from Collective Judgment.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2021).

Offers the Islamic concept of ummah as an alternative to the nation-state.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and indexes.