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Noun: Salafi movement
  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
    - Salafism

Type of: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism

Encyclopedia: Salafi movement