Salafism
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- noun
- /səˈlɑːfɪzəm/
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salafismo
- To win the fight against Salafism, the historical weight and resources of local religion must be mobilized for grassroots control of the mosque, imam, and ulema.
- armed Salafism
Examples
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Saudi and Persian Gulf oil money continues to fund Salafism, which has a nesting ground and sympathetic roosts around the world.
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Such a system can provide a means for reinforcing and defending local religion's position within the village social network while driving Salafism outside it.
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Palestinian Salafism is on the rise.
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As such, it can offer an advantageous religious model for Pashtuns versus Salafism and be successful in competing for new adherents.
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For one thing, its doctrinarian oppressiveness creates an enormous resource drain and places Salafism in opposition to many preexisting local constituencies and natural societal forces.
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Once the divide is drawn between Salafism and local, traditional Islam, the historical weight and resources of local religion must be mobilized to challenge Salafism for grassroots control of the mosque, imam, and ulema.
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The strategic intent is to destroy Salafist military capacity, seize control of Pashtun populations under Salafism's grasp, and reformulate those societies so that they ally with the government and reject radical Islam.
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There are other minority sects in Afghanistan and Central Asia that can buttress the sectarian war against armed Salafism, notably the Sufi movement, which in many ways embodies the antithesis to Salafism.
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And among Shari'a adherents, this future survey data must be sensitive to the distinction between traditionalism, orthodoxy, and Salafism, along with the more obvious sect distinctions, such as between Sunnis and Shiites.
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Many young people in the region are drawn to Salafism as a way to connect with traditional Islamic values.
Synonyms
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A strict, conservative form of Sunni Islam that influences Saudi Arabia
A group within Sunni Islam that wants to follow the practices of the earliest Muslims and oppose new religious practices
Surface Forms
Morphology
Salafism = salaf (transparent) = salaf + ism
The suffix '-ism' productively forms a noun denoting an ideology from the base 'salaf', so the relation is a straightforward ideology formation if the learner knows 'salaf'.
Etymology
The word Salafism comes from the Arabic word salaf, which means 'predecessors' or 'early generations', plus the English ending -ism meaning a 'belief' or 'movement'. So Salafism is the idea of following the ways of those early Muslims, which is why the movement focuses on returning to original teachings and practices.