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Definition of Salafism
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.
Exact synonyms: Salafi Movement
Generic synonyms: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism
Generic synonyms: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism
Definition of Salafism
1. Noun. A Sunni Islamic movement that takes the pious ancestors, the salaf of the patristic period of early Islam, as exemplary models.Moosa, Ebrahim. ''Ghazali And The Poetics Of Imagination'' ISBN 0-8078-5612-6 p. 21 ¹
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