Salafism

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English

Etymology

From Salafi +‎ -ism or salaf +‎ -ism.

Noun

Salafism (uncountable)

  1. (Islam) A Sunni Islamic movement that takes the pious ancestors, the salaf of the patristic period of early Islam, as exemplary models.[1]

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References

  1. ^ Moosa, Ebrahim. Ghazali And The Poetics Of Imagination →ISBN p. 21