English-language scholarship on the Umma often develops within a limited field of reference. Important Arabic scholarship—especially work produced within institutions and intellectual circles in the Muslim world—rarely enter the conversations that shape English-language research, even when it speaks directly to the same questions.

This series is part of Ummatics’ effort to widen that field of reference, as well as to establish collaborative links in ummatic research. It presents selected translations from the Cairo-based Hadara (Civilization) Center for Studies and Researches, a knowledge and intellectual platform to develop a civilizational perspective in the social and human sciences. Hadara’s work has combined attention to methods of inquiry with sustained engagement with the major questions facing the Umma, producing rigorous scholarship of value to ummatic inquiry.

These translations are invitations to engage scholarship that thinks from within the historical and civilizational contexts of the Umma. By making these works available in English, Ummatics seeks to expand the sources available for contemporary ummatic research and to support a research culture that is cumulative.