Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World of Islam: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Abstract

Today we come face to face with perhaps the greatest evil that stalks the modern world-that of nationalism ... The path of the Ummah and that of the Islamic movement is blocked by nation-states. These nation-states are like huge boulders blown across our path by the ill-wind of recent history. All nation-states that today occupy, enslave and exploit the lands, peoples and resources of the Ummah must of necessity be dismantled ..... It is quite clear that one Ummah must mean one Islamic movement, leading to one global Islamic State under one Imam/Khalifa. (Kalim Saddiqui in M. Ghayasuddin, The Impact of Nationalism on the Muslim World,