jihad
IPA: dʒˈihæd
noun
- (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.
verb
- To participate in a jihad.
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Examples of "jihad" in Sentences
- 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.
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