Thesaurus: jihad
a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal
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- n. a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal
- A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief. [Their] courage in war . . . 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. James Bryce.
- n:100 n. a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels n. a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal