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Definition of mujahedin in English Turkish dictionary
- mücahitleri
- mujahideen
- mücahit
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English - English
Definition of mujahedin in English English dictionary
- {i} (Arabic) holy warriors; military opposition groups which fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979-89)
- mujahideen
- Muslim holy warriors engaged in a jihad
- mujaheddin
- Muslim soldiers with strong religious beliefs (mujahadah )
- mujaheddin
- {i} Afghan resistance fighter; Islamic guerrillas in Iran and Pakistan who fought holy war against the Soviet forces that occupied Afghanistan in the late 1970's and the 1980's
- mujahideen
- a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad; "some call the mujahidin international warriors but others just call them terrorists"
- mujahideen
- Arabic mujhidn ("those engaged in jihad") In its broadest sense, those Muslims who proclaim themselves warriors for the faith. Its Arabic singular, mujhid, was not an uncommon personal name from the early Islamic period onward. However, the term did not gain popular currency as a collective or plural noun referring to "holy warriors" until the 18th century in India, where it became associated with Muslim revivalism. In the 20th century the term was used most commonly in Iran and Afghanistan. In Iran the Mojhedin-e Khalq ("Mujahideen of the People"), a group combining Islamic and Marxist ideologies, engaged in a long-term guerrilla war against the leadership of the Islamic republic. The name was most closely associated, however, with members of a number of guerrilla groups operating in Afghanistan that opposed invading Soviet forces and eventually toppled the Afghan communist government during the Afghan War (1979-92). Rival factions thereafter fell out among themselves precipitating the rise of one faction, the Taliban. Like the term jihad to which it is lexicographically connected the name has been used rather freely, both in the press and by Islamic militants themselves, and often has been used to refer to any Muslim groups engaged in hostilities with non-Muslims or even with secularized Muslim regimes