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.

Exact synonyms: Salafism
Generic synonyms: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salafi Movement

Sakta
Saktas
Sakti
Saktism
Sakurai
Sakurai-Lisch nodule
Sakyamuni
Sal
Saladin
Salado
Saladoes
Salados
Salafast Group for Call and Combat
Salafi
Salafi Christian
Salafi movement
Salafism
Salafist Group
Salagrama
Salagramas
Salah
Salah's sternal puncture needle
Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub
Salah al-Din Battalions
Salamanca
Salamandra atra
Salamandra maculosa
Salamandra salamandra
Sale
Salekhard

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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