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Definition of Jihads

Jihad
Jihad Ji*had", Jehad Je*had", n. [Ar. jih[=a]d.] (Moham.) A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief. [Their] courage in war . . . had not, like that of the Mohammedan dervishes of the Sudan, or of Mohammedans anywhere engaged in a jehad, a religious motive and the promise of future bliss behind it. --James Bryce.

Meaning of Jihads from wikipedia

- jihad. The Wahhabi movement that spread across the Arabian peninsula starting in the 18th century emphasized jihad as armed struggle. The Fula jihads...
- the military campaigns of historic Islamic empires, and later the Fula jihads in West Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. The largest Salafi-jihadist...
- The Fula (or Fulani) jihads (Arabic: جهاد الفولا) sometimes called the Fulani revolution were a series of jihads that occurred across West Africa during...
- to create an organization named "Al-Qaeda" to serve as a "vanguard" for jihad. When Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied Kuwait in 1990, bin Laden offered...
- West African jihads may refer to: Fula jihads, the 18th- and 19th-century Islamic movements that led the founding of various Fula states Insurgency in...
- Jihad (Arabic: جهاد jihād, 'striving' or 'struggling for something better or greater') is used as a given name. People with the name Jihad or Jehad include:...
- Islamic Jihad may refer to: Types of Islamic Jihad Jihad, the Islamic theological concept, literally meaning "struggle" Jihadism, a neologism for militant...
- largest states in Africa in the 19th century. His success inspired similar jihads in Western Africa. The ancient Kanem–Bornu Empire was losing power by the...
- Jihad is an Arabic word for "struggle", denoting a theological and legal concept in Islam, and there are several types of Jihad in Islam. Jihad or variant...
- as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit. 'Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad'), is a self-proclaimed...