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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.