Salafi jihadism or jihadist-Salafism is a transnational religious-political ideology based on a

belief in "physical" jihadism and the Salafi movement of returning to what adherents believe to be
true Sunni Islam.[1][2]
The terms "Salafist jihadist" and "jihadist-Salafism" were coined by scholar Gilles Kepel in
2002[3][4][5][6] to describe "a hybrid Islamistideology" developed by international Islamist volunteers
in the Afghan anti-Soviet jihad who had become isolated from their national and social class
origins.[3] The concept was described by Martin Kramer as an academic term that "will inevitably
be [simplified to] jihadismor the jihadist movement in popular usage." (emphasis supplied)[6]

Wahhabism and Salafism had in common.

1. above all disdain for all developments subsequent to al-Salaf al-Salih (the first two or
three generations of Islam),
2. the rejection of Sufism, and
3. the abandonment of consistent adherence to one of the four or five
Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh).
And "two important and interrelated features" that distinguished Salafis from the Wahhabis:

1. a reliance on attempts at persuasion rather than coercion in order to rally other Muslims
to their cause; and
2. an informed awareness of the political and socio-economic crises confronting the Muslim
world.[