The Ummatic Method – Dr. Ovamir Anjum | Istanbul Conference 2025

Dr. Ovamir Anjum outlines the Ummatics ‘method’ for Muslim unification and civilisational renewal in the Anthropocene. He reads our moment (information explosion, climate crisis, extreme inequality) and argues that Islam’s spiritual revival has outpaced its political agency. The ummatic response: build independent institutions, think with (not merely within) the tradition, harness the global dispersion of Muslims.

Dr. Ovamir Anjum is Professor and Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Toledo; co-editor of the American Journal of Islam and Society; and Editor-in-Chief (Review Board), Yaqeen Institute. Author of Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought (CUP, 2012) and translator of Ibn al-Qayyim’s Ranks of Divine Seekers (Brill, 2020). His selected publications can be accessed at https://utoledo.academia.edu/OvamirAnjum

This year’s conference builds on our research agenda—focusing on the concept of ummatic soft power, political unification, and the methodologies needed to orient research and policy toward ummatic renewal. We explore how the Umma can meaningfully respond to emerging multipolar realities, navigate competing world orders, and develop new institutional and civilizational models grounded in Islamic ethics.

Discussions covered the global order and ummatic strategy, research methods and conceptual frameworks, and the introduction of Collaboratives of Ummatic Soft Power (CUSPs)—transnational networks intended to cultivate cooperation across fields such as law, education, media, economics, and technology.

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