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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
- They declared jihad on him, the mullahs, the tribal chiefs.Chapter 6 (9% in)
- Jihad, of course.Chapter 6 (9% in)
- This was what jihad was all about, he said.Chapter 7 (9% in)
- Jihad also earned you certain rights and privileges, he said, because God sees to it that those who sacrifice the most justly reap the rewards as well.Chapter 7 (9% in)
- Looking at the pictures, Adel wished he had been around to fight jihad alongside his father in those more adventurous days.Chapter 7 (10% in)
- The revelations of what he now knew his father had done—first in the name of jihad, then for what he had called the just rewards of sacrifice—had left Adel reeling.Chapter 7 (94% in)
There are no more uses of "jihad" in And The Mountains Echoed.
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