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jihad

Holy war undertaken by Muslims against nonbelievers. In the Mecca Declaration (1981), the Islamic powers pledged a jihad against Israel, though not necessarily military attack.

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War in itself is never holy, and if the lesser jihad of war is not accompanied by what the Prophet Muhammad called 'the greater jihad', the struggle to control the lower instincts and the whims of the ego, then war may be diabolical.

Islam and the middle way: extremism is a betrayal of Islam's essence, ... by Sajid, Imam Abduljalil / For A Change

Electoral politics as forms of (greater jihad) - have given way in Algeria to lesser jihad where the state and the outlawed (Islamists engage one another violently.

Al-la nidam: an Arab view of the new world (dis)order by Sadiki, Larbi / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)

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jihad (redirected from Lesser jihad)

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jihad
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