- a variation of jihad.
jehad
Americannoun
noun
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"Believe it or not, Ali wants a jehad."
From Sjambak by Jack Vance
The city was simply swarming with budmashes, and it was said that the priests had begun to preach a jehad against the British raj.
From The Keeper of the Door by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Himself a firebrand of the most dangerous nature, he had preached an anti-British jehad with all the force of his ecclesiastical rhetoric.
From On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James
This jehad, as it was called, proposed to unite all "True Believers" against the invading Christians, and give the war a strongly religious aspect.
From War in the Garden of Eden by Kermit Roosevelt
Your ancestors conquered this area less than two centuries ago in a jehad led by Othman Dan.
From Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds
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