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

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salafism

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
Salem

Literary usage of Salafism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. After the Surge: The Case for U.S. Military Disengagement from Iraq by Steven N. Simon (2007)
"The encroachment of salafism has intensified the inherent bloodthirstiness of the sectarian violence. Shias can be murdered either because they do not ..."

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