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Definition of Salafi movement
1. Noun. A militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels; seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salafi Movement
Literary usage of Salafi movement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States by F. Gregory Gause (1994)
"Islamic groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and the salafi movement (similar to
the Saudi Wahhabi movement) on the Sunni side and various Shici ..."
2. The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (1921)
"... while their programme is the old Wahabi dream of a puritan conversion of the
whole Islamic world.1 As for the Salafi movement, it started in India even ..."
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