Noun salafism has 1 sense

• salafism(n = noun.cognition) salafi movement - 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; Array
is a kind of islam, islamism, mohammedanism, muhammadanism, muslimism