Summary
The transcultural and transhistorical Islamic community, which is the orienting horizon of Palestinian Islamism and its claim to sovereignty in Palestine, centered on Jerusalem as the site of Muhammad’s heavenly ascent (the mi’raj) (Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile, PDF p.32).
Details
- Scholarship on Muslim Americans describes an emerging transethnic, intersectional and contested conception of umma, rooted in what Karim 2009 calls “ummah ideals”, integrating South Asian, African American and Arab Muslims in cities such as Chicago (PDF p.35-36).
- The Islamic State predicated liberating Palestine on resurrection of the historical caliphate under its leadership, and disdained both the PLO and Hamas as anti-Islamic for focusing on Palestinian national liberation rather than a territorial base for a revived umma (PDF p.33).