Salafist
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- noun
- /sæˈlɑːfɪst/
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salafista
- Tunisia's former president, Zine El Abidine Ben, had allowed the Salafists to grow.
- Salafist group
And if we are worried about the ultra conservative Salafists, I see them also trying to fit in and and to be better integrated.
- And if we are worried about the ultra conservative Salafists, I see them also trying to fit in and and to be better integrated.
Examples
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There are certainly Salafists among them, but most Libyans are neither Salafist nor Muslim Brotherhood.
Blog text (6) -
Indeed, Hamas members appeared to be more interested in reconciling with Salafists than with Fatah members.
Academic text (2011) -
And if we are worried about the ultra conservative Salafists, I see them also trying to fit in and and to be better integrated.
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There was also some evidence of friction between Salafists and Hamas.
Academic text (2011) -
The challenge would be to avoid making this a victory for Salafists that could be worse than Assad.
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Yet Washington cannot discount the potential for cooperation between Salafists and Hamas.
Academic text (2011) -
Germany acts against Salafists, but somehow the Brotherhood types do not get mentioned.
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On this issue, Hamas showed no apparent disagreement with Salafists.
Academic text (2011) -
Hard-line Muslims known as Salafists were among the demonstrators, who were in pickup trucks and on foot.
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The Salafists advocate for a return to the practices of the earliest Muslims.
Synonyms
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A Muslim from Saudi Arabia who follows a strict form of Sunni Islam and rejects later religious changes
A person who follows a Muslim movement that tries to copy the beliefs and practices of the earliest Muslims
Compounds
- NSFW
A former Algerian Islamist militant group that carried out terrorist attacks to try to overthrow the government
An Algerian extremist Islamist group that split from another militant group and tried to overthrow the government while supporting al-Qaeda
Surface Forms
Morphology
Salafist = Salaf (semi-transparent) = Salaf + ist
The lexical formation is Salaf + -ist meaning 'one who follows or advocates the Salaf', but the root is specialized and borrowed, so understanding requires background knowledge.
Etymology
Salafist comes from the Arabic salaf, meaning 'forefathers' or 'ancestors', plus the English -ist that marks a person. A Salafist is someone who wants to return to and live by the practices of the first generations of Muslims.