- a variation of jihad.
jehad
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The hordes which had gathered to the banners of the Mushk-i-Alum and Mahomed Jan combined with the fanaticism of the jehad a fine secular greed for plunder.
From The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Archibald Forbes
The fact is that all the Mohammedan world was in a state of restless activity, as the jehad, or holy war, was being preached.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
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
Even W. L. George, potentially a novelist of sound consideration, drops his craft for the jehad of the suffragettes.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Half the marabouts in North Africa are proclaiming a jehad in support of the Pan-Islam program of the Arab Union.
From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Mack Reynolds
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