Ummah

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ummah (Arabic: أمة ) is an Arabic word meaning community or nation. It is commonly used to mean either the collective nation of states, or (in the context of pan-Arabism) the whole Arab world. In the context of Islam, the word ummah is used to mean the diaspora or Commonwealth of the Believers (ummat al-mu'minin), and thus the whole Muslim world.