All 14 Uses of
jihad
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Mammy said that before he left with Noor to join the jihad against the Soviets, back in 1980, it was Ahmad who had dutifully and competently minded these things.
p. 109.7jihad = a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
- Jihad was another forbidden word.
p. 112.8
- Particularly now that the American president, Reagan, had started shipping the Mujahideen Stinger Missiles to down the Soviet helicopters, now that Muslims from all over the world were joining the cause: Egyptians, Pakistanis, even wealthy Saudis, who left their millions behind and came to Afghanistan to fight the jihad.
p. 113.2
- She'd been two years old when Ahmad and Noor had left Kabul for Panjshir up north, to join Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud's forces and fight the jihad Laila hardly remembered anything at all about them.
p. 121.3
- The father could not join the jihad then; he'd have to stay home and care for his child.
p. 122.7
- The jihad was over.
p. 159.7
- An Islamic Jihad Council, formed in Peshawar by several of the Mujahideen factions, would oversee things for two months, led by Sibghatullah Mojadidi.
p. 164.7
- Did you fight jihad?
p. 177.3 *
- And he calls this jihad.
p. 212.2
- What does jihad have to do with killing women and children?
p. 212.2
- Corrupt, greedy Mujahideen commanders, armed to the teeth, rich off heroin, declaring jihad on one another and killing everyone in between-that's what.
p. 274.6
- But that had been during the Soviet war, Tariq said, the days of jihad and worldwide interest and generous funding and visits from Margaret Thatcher.
p. 334.5
- Your brother Farhad joined the jihad in 1980.
p. 405.4
- Many of the drawings depict tanks running over huts, men brandishing AK-47s, refugee camp tents, scenes of jihad.
p. 412.6
Definition:
a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels; or any relentless battle for a belief
or more rarely: a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral, spiritual, or political goal
or more rarely: a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral, spiritual, or political goal