Urwat al - Wuthqa International Academic Research Institute Journal of the Socio-Political Thought of Islam 2981-1511 1 2 2020 02 01 Religiosity, Political Inclusion, and the Legacy of the Sahifah al-Madina (622 C.E.) 1 28 61 167054 EN Journal Article 2023 02 19 This paper focuses on the notion of religiosity of the ummah of believers, within a capital legal document of the history of Islam, which is the Sahifah al-Madina of 622 C.E. (the Charter of Medina). More specifically, it aims at reading the Charter under the light of today’s call, in order to draw a notion of “political inclusion” (of religious minorities) in harmony not only with the early Islamic tradition but also with these recent attempts of interreligious dialogue. For this reason, the paper, firstly, tries to highlight the religious and political meanings of the Charter for Muḥammad and his contemporaries; besides it aims demonstrating that under Islamic law agreements between different religious groups are morally and religiously valuable, and, thus to strive for concluding them is beneficial for the entire community; lastly, the paper tries to extract from the Charter some legal principles regulating relationships between the ummah and minority groups, so to draw a new interpretation suitable for the contemporary and globalized Muslim society. 1

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