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The title is an article<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11562-014-0317-8</ref> by Michal Cenker in Contemporary Islam volume 9, pages 149–169 (2015). The following is an account of its abstract. 
==Introduction==

This study draws from ethnographic data of a scarcely researched region of Central Europe to show how migrant Muslims in Slovakia confront everyday translocality by reifying a single community of Muslims. 

==Muslim in Slovakia==

This symbolic community is articulated in the concept of the Ummah. Muslims in Slovakia are mostly migrants, since formation of a larger “native” Muslim population was historically limited. 

==Concept of Ummah==

It will be argued that Ummah is an imagined community that translates the political and religious narratives of a global Muslim community into the local group of Muslims and, in such way, enables Muslims to transcend mutual ethnocultural, national and social heterogeneity. 

==Conclusion==

This study will show four different ways how the Ummah as an imagined single community is reified: (1) Ummah as a set of functional networks; (2) Ummah as a symbol to interpret migrant experience; (3) Ummah as a network of trust; and (4) Ummah as a symbol in political narratives.

==Notes==