Only after freeing the concept of the ummah from the formation of narratives about modern geopolitics, can we perhaps re-read it in a decolonizing and emancipatory mode. This was exactly the set of concerns that initially inspired my study. Thus, if do not want to leave the baby, namely emancipatory Muslim political traditions, with the bathwater of imperial and Cold War geopolitics, we need go and find it a better, warmer tub in our decolonial critique that might not rely only on Muslim intellectual and spiritual traditions but on a shared human heritage. There have been successful examples of this path, in the tradition of Muslim feminism and in other forms of justice-oriented Muslim legal and theological reinterpretation of texts and traditions. Yet, those who try to rescue an emancipatory tradition of thought and faith cannot achieve this goal unless they destroy the geopolitical and racial myths about Muslim unity that were given canonical authenticity in the last two centuries.