The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2079 page)
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Saladin:
UD-D
Salafiy(y)a
.
.
Movement founded by Jamal al-Din
al-Afgh
n
and Mu
ammad ‘Abduh, which sought to reconcile Islam with the advances of Western science and rationality. It received its name from the phrase
salaf
al-
li
n, ‘the virtuous ancestors’, but it was not regarded by its opponents as preserving the essence of the past, but rather as subverting it.
In contrast, the same word is now used to translate ‘fundamentalism’.
al-Afgh
nand Muammad ‘Abduh, which sought to reconcile Islam with the advances of Western science and rationality. It received its name from the phrasesalaf
al-
lin, ‘the virtuous ancestors’, but it was not regarded by its opponents as preserving the essence of the past, but rather as subverting it.In contrast, the same word is now used to translate ‘fundamentalism’.
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