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Jehad   Listen
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jehad  n.  Same as jihad.
Synonyms: jihad.



Jihad, Jehad  n.  (Islam) A religious war against infidels or Muslim heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief. "(Their) courage in war... had not, like that of the Muslim dervishes of the Sudan, or of Muslims anywhere engaged in a jehad, a religious motive and the promise of future bliss behind it."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jehad" Quotes from Famous Books



... adventure. It deals with this War and the experiences of Richard Hannay (whom you will recollect as the hero of the "Thirty-nine Steps," and who has since become a Major and got wounded at Loos) in his efforts, eventually crowned with success, to crush a German plot—this plot being the working up of a "Jehad," or Holy War among the Mohammedans, and so provoking a rising of Islam against the British. A thoroughly live story, told with ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones



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