salafi movement

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsSalafism

   BroaderIslam

Questions about salafi movement

What does salafi movement mean?

salafi movement means "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".

What is another word for salafi movement?

Close synonyms include Salafism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is salafi movement a common word?

salafi movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.