Noun
A
movement
comparing
itself
to
Sunni
Islam
,
claiming
to
taking
the
pious
ancestors
,
the
salaf
of
the
patristic
period
of
early
Islam
,
as
exemplary
models
.<
ref
>
Moosa
,
Ebrahim
. ''
Ghazali
And
The
Poetics
Of
Imagination
''
p
.
21
ref
>