Jihad meaning

jĭ-häd'
An individual's striving for spiritual self-perfection.
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(theology) A personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and against evil.
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A Muslim holy war or spiritual struggle for the propagation or defense of Islam.
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A campaign against perceived foes, especially such a campaign regarded as fanatical or immoderate.
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A fanatical campaign for or against an idea, etc.
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(Islam) A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
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An aggressive campaign for an idea.
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A war by Muslims against unbelievers or enemies of Islam, carried out as a religious duty.
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Origin of jihad

Arabic jihād from jahada to strive ghd in Semitic roots

Sentence Examples

  • Mahommed Ahmad (the Sudanese mandi) proclaimed a jihad in 1882.

  • Thereupon Fodio unfurled the green banner of Mahomet and preached a jihad or religious war.

  • Mahommedans who do not acknowledge the spiritual authority of the Ottoman sultan, such as the Persians and Moors, look to their own rulers for the proclamation of a jihad; there has been in fact no universal warfare by Moslems on unbelievers since the early days of Mahommedanism.

  • In the belief of Moslems every one of their number slain in a jihad is taken straight to paradise.

  • The Crusade was now at last answered by the counter-Crusade - the jihad; for though for many years past Saladin had, in his attempt to acquire all the inheritance of Nureddin, left Palestine unmenaced and intact, his ultimate aim was always the holy war and the recovery of Jerusalem.

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