Salafism

English

Etymology

From Salafi +‎ -ism or salaf +‎ -ism.

Noun

Salafism (uncountable)

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

Hypernyms
  • Sunni Islam

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