In 1933, Shaikh Abu Al-Yaqzan (d. 1973), a former student of the Ibadite reformist scholar Muḥammad Aṭṭfiyash (d.1914) and one of the first Algerian journalists, defied multiple attempts of censorship by the French colonial administration and launched a newspaper named “al-Umma” anew in Algiers. This publication went on to become his longest-lasting Mozabite periodical during the first half of the 20th century. Notably, "Al-Umma" served as a crucial mediator, fostering a sense of community and developing Ibadite conceptualizations of the umma in interwar French-Algeria. These conceptualizations ranged from local imaginings of a Mozabite umma to pan-African visions, such as the Maghrebian umma, and global perspectives like a pan-Islamic umma. This research aims to discern alternative political imaginaries, envisioned communities, and forms of resistance within Al-Umma al-Yaqzaniyya. A significant aspect to explore is how "Al-Umma" symbolized a robust form of epistemic resilience. This paper illustrates how periodicals, like "Al-Umma," served not only as a powerful form of resistance against French colonial occupation, it further served as a means of asserting Ibadite Muslim subjectivity that thoroughly challenged the dominant Eurocentric and colonial epistemological space that has been upheld by the French settler colonial state since the 1840s.