jihad

IPA: dʒˈihæd

(Islam) A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
An aggressive campaign for an idea.
(Islam, theology) A personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and/or against evil.

Examples of "jihad" in Sentences

Afghan jihad and war with Russia.
Added a section on jihad with sources.
Concept was mention the definition of jihad.
Dhimmitude is the direct consequence of jihad.
An analogy is with the concept of militant Jihad.
And of course, there are limitations on any jihad.
Calls for Jihad and the destruction of Switzerland.
That moment of sacrilege was the beginning of the Jihad.
For the believing Muslim there is a greater jihad and a lesser jihad.
Greater Jihad IS fake. there is no such thing as a greater or lesser jihad.
Aman Mojadidi Mr. Mojadidi's use of the word jihad in his work is no coincidence.
In some non-Western conversations, the term jihad has acquired much of the same ambiguity.
In the case of Saudi national, Mansour Al-Nogaidan, he equates the term jihad to extremism.
In his hands, he held a Koran with the word jihad traced in pencil on the side of its pages.
AB: The martial quality suggested by the term jihad also is found in much Buddhist terminology.
A British Muslim women's group has launched a "jihad against violence", in a bid to reclaim the term jihad from extremists.
"Islamic lexicon" and, in particular, an advocate for replacing the term jihad with hirabah in discussing Islamic terrorism.