Examples of Ummah in the following topics:
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- This constitution instituted rights and responsibilities and united the different Medina communities into the first Islamic state, the Ummah.
- Tribal identities were still important, and were used to refer to different groups, but the constitution declared that the "main binding tie" for the newly created Ummah was religion.
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- Caliph Abu Bakr insisted that they had not just submitted to a leader, but joined the Islamic community of Ummah.
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- Only in subsequent centuries, with the development of the religious doctrine of Islam and with that the understanding of the Muslim ummah, did mass conversion take place.
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- The community defined in the Constitution of Medina, Ummah, had a religious outlook, also shaped by practical considerations, and substantially preserved the legal forms of the old Arab tribes.