Muslim community

Believers in Islam

A Muslim community is a group of Muslims bound by shared faith, geography, or both.

The term may describe Muslims in a particular place—the Muslim community in Detroit—or Muslims collectively worldwide, sometimes called the ummah.

Politicians and journalists often invoke "the Muslim community" as if it were monolithic, though Muslims hold diverse views and practices.

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religious affiliation

Muslim communityChristian community

Believers gathered in fellowship

Jewish community · Hindu community · Buddhist community · Christendom · Jewish diaspora

secularity

Muslim communitysecular society

Culture separating state from religion

secular state · secular humanists

social organization type

Muslim communitynation-state

Sovereign political territory

ethnic group · nation · country

Family

Muslim, community, Muslims, communal, commune, communes, communing, communed, communitarian

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