Both Uses
jihad
in
The Kite Runner
(Edited)
- At fourteen, he and his father had joined the jihad against the Shorawi.
p. 230.3 *jihad = a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
- He told me about a time shortly after he and his father joined the jihad and fought the Shorawi in the Panjsher Valley.
p. 266.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(jihad) 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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)