salafism
IPA: sʌɫˈeɪfɪzʌm
Root Word: Salafism
noun
- (Islam) A movement comparing itself to Sunni Islam, claiming to taking the pious ancestors, the salaf of the patristic period of early Islam, as exemplary models.
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Examples of "salafism" in Sentences
- They claim rising salafism the Saudi sort of islam..but without violence..but get this...
- Not as much editorial control as I'd like, but solid people who don't think salafism is great .
- The fact that it attacks a profoundly illiberal religious practice, salafism, is in my view irrelevant ...
- Not so according to Hariri and the founder of salafism in Lebanon, sheikh Dai al-Islam al-Shahhal (who happens to be a cousin of the other sheikh).
- United in their opposition to the radical salafism of the Taliban, in mid-July the two nations signed a host of bilateral pacts, including pledges to jointly cooperate on stabilizing Afghanistan.
- He ignores the central need for Muslims to defeat Wahhabism, salafism and other pre-modern draconian manifestations of the faith which dominate so much of the power structure of the "Muslim world".
- Thus began the legacy of ultra-conservative Saudi Wahhabist dogma that ended up molding the mind of one Osama bin Laden with help from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, who were welcomed by the Saudi Monarch to preach their combination of salafism and jihad, which the Saudis themselves would later come to regret.
- The emergence of Fatah al-Islam in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, "the infestation of al-Qaida-type salafism," which has already reached Gaza Strip, according to Khalidi, and the wide-spreading attraction of the one-state or bi-national state option among the Palestinians, as an alternative for the two-state solution for the Palestinian Israeli conflict, are manifestations of the deteriorating influence of the national movement led by both the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and "Hamas."
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