Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- الكنيسة
- Transliteration
- al-kanīsah
- Rejected alternatives
- الجماعة, الأمة
Church
الأمة (ummah) is the specific pan-Islamic term for the worldwide community of Muslims and must never be borrowed for ‘church.’ In everyday usage al-kanisah often denotes the physical building of a minority religious community rather than the living, gathered people of God; reinforce the latter sense explicitly.
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