Salafism

Noun. A Sunni Islamic movement that takes the pious ancestors, the salaf of the patristic period of early Islam, as exemplary models.Moosa, Ebrahim. ''Ghazali And The Poetics Of Imagination'' ISBN 0-8078-5612-6 p. 21 .

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