Arabic for "struggle"

Usage examples of jihad.

He, Asad Khalil, had nothing left to lose and nothing left to live for, unless he took up the Jihad and carried the Holy War to the shores of the enemy.

On his way to Karachi, Hazmi spent a night in Quetta at a safehouse where, according to KSM, an Egyptian named Mohamed Atta simultaneously stayed on his way to Afghanistan for jihad training.

De Jihad had gedreigd met bomaanslagen en er was een strenge bewaking ingesteld, maar niemand lette op de bleke man die voorovergebogen in zijn rolstoel zat, gewikkeld in een deken tegen de aprilkou.

ICE WATER AND BOMBS While Ronnie Bucca began his first weeks on the job as an FDNY fire marshal, Ramzi Yousef was halfway around the world plotting to use his skills as a bomb maker to wreak havoc for the jihad.

We will delve into the most ancient records, into the very myths of Dune, into the time of the Great Revolt, more commonly known as the Butlerian Jihad.

The original idea for the Butlerian Jihad may have come to Herbert as a direct result of the fear of computers in our own culture.

The Butlerian Jihad was the birth agony of a new science of the subjective.

The Spacing Guild, which established its monopoly on interstellar transport soon after the Butlerian Jihad, likewise uses mind expansion techniques.

The fear of computers was the basis of the Butlerian Jihad, and the limits of such machines were observed in Mentat behavior.

The Butlerian Jihad was an outgrowth of this largely unconscious process, with roots back to the original decision to allow thinking machines too much control, and the inevitable rise of the Omnius Empire.

Elto caught a few words about a sleeping princess, a hidden and magical city, a lost hero from the Butlerian Jihad who would slumber in oblivion until he rose again to save the Imperium.

The blood-feud between the two noble families dated all the way back to the Butlerian Jihad.

Navachristianity of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found all through the universe in little pockets of insulated pyons, and finally, the Butlerian Jihad.

As a military commander of considerable proven ability, Jorn could not but be familiar with the corruption of an occupying force by the standards and customs of the nation that it occupies-and jihads and crusades were particularly subject to this kind of corrosion.

Backed by Niriem and four other Seraphim, Serena confronted the Jihad guards that Iblis had left in the hall.