jehad

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
noun a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal

The fact is that all the Mohammedan world was in a state of restless activity, as the jehad, or holy war, was being preached. — Southern Arabia, J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent
The courage in war which distinguished the tribes of Zulu and Kosa race was all the more creditable because it had not, like that of the Mohammedan dervishes of the Sudan, or of Mohammedans anywhere engaged in a jehad, a religious motive and the promise of future bliss behind it. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

jihad, international jihad

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