jehad
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 Reynolds, Mack
They have the air and appearance of devotees, men set aside, roaming preachers of a jehad whose meaning they have forgotten.
From Letters from America by Brooke, Rupert
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 Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
We have laughed at the Holy War, the jehad that old Von der Goltz prophesied.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
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 Bent, Theodore
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