Summarising the Ummatics Institute’s operations and achievements of the year 2024 (1445-1446).
Foster dialogue through colloquia, seminars, and conferences to explore novel ideas for the benefit of the Umma.
Cultivate Research on ummatic thought and practice according to the highest scholarly standards of the Islamic and human sciences.
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Provide Training and professional services for institutions and policy makers seeking to develop a more meaningful ummatic ethos.
“And thus we have made you a just community that you will be witnesses over the people and the Messenger will be a witness over you.”
Ummatics Foundations studies how ummatic thought and practice can uniquely, feasibly, and preferably solve the various social, political, economic, ethical, and spiritual challenges facing the Muslim Umma.
Summarising the Ummatics Institute’s operations and achievements of the year 2024 (1445-1446).
Massoud Vahedi
This article presents a number of legally and theologically centred passages from early, middle, and late-era Ḥanbalī authorities1 concerning the imamate. These excerpts demonstrate that ever since the inception of the Ḥanbalī school of thought, the imamate, or the caliphate2, was deemed a necessity for maintaining unity, upholding the social order of the polity, enforcing the morals and norms of the Sharī’a, protecting the common interest of the general Muslim population, as well as ensuring the implementation of public religious ordinances.
A word loaded like no other, “caliphate” summons deep memories and desires for some and ominous fears for others. For some fourteen centuries, notwithstanding some discontinuities, the Muslim world had been synonymous with the caliphate.