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
• Syn: ↑Salafi movement
• Hypernyms: ↑Islam, ↑Islamism, ↑Mohammedanism, ↑Muhammadanism, ↑Muslimism
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Salafism /sə-lafˈizm/
noun
A movement within Islam whose aim is to restore the purity of the faith in its early generations
ORIGIN: Ar as-salaf as-saalih pious predecessors
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Salafˈi or Salafˈist noun and adjective
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