English

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.^[2]

Related terms

• Salafi
• Salafist
• Salafiyya

Synonyms

• Wahhabism

Translations

References

1. ↑ Dawat-us-Salafiyyah (Call of those who preceded us)
2. ↑ Moosa, Ebrahim. Ghazali And The Poetics Of Imagination ISBN 0-8078-5612-6 p. 21