jihadism

Meaning

Noun

  • The ideological movement within modern Islamism that advocates armed jihad and hostility against non-believers.

Origin

  • jihad + -ism
  • Coined in the late 1970s, from Arabic جِهَاد -ism, based on the earlier (1960s) adjective jihadist.

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