jihadist

jihad +‎ -ist. Attested from the 1910s in the sense of "a mujahid". The adjectival sense of "pertaining to the jihadist movement" is from the 1960s..

jihadist (plural jihadists)

1. One who participates in a jihad, an Islamic holy war or conflict; a mujahid.
2. An adherent of jihadism.
3. One who is militant for their religion (or irreligion).
   • 2006, Anthony Livingston Hall, The Ipinions Journal: 2005: the Year in Review, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 226:

     […] only a matter of time before Christian jihadists start strapping bombs to their bodies and going off on suicide missions in the name of Jesus Christ.

   • 2009, Robert S. McElvaine, Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 178:

     Like Muslim jihadists, Christian jihadists such as these two are willing to sacrifice as they seek to impose their religious tyranny on others.

   • 2010, John F. MacArthur, The Jesus You Can't Ignore: What You Must Learn from the Bold Confrontations of Christ, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:

     […] with Christian jihadists wearing bandoliers, waving real weapons, and waging a literal flesh-and-blood incursion against teachers of false religions.

   • 2012, Florian Homm, Rogue Financier: The Adventures of an Estranged Capitalist, FinanzBuch Verlag, →ISBN:

     By the end of the semester, only one radical Jewish jihadist in my study group kept being a racist pig and attacking me personally in section discussions.

   • 2016, Larry Alex Taunton, The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 94:

     I was prepared to meet a radical atheist jihadist. Would we brawl right there in my hotel room? I half expected just that.

   • 2017, Emmanuel Carrère, The Kingdom, →ISBN, page 371:

     […] and even later evolved into the Jewish jihadist who wrote the Book of Revelation.

• mujahid, jihadi, takfiri

jihadist (comparative more jihadist, superlative most jihadist)

1. Pertaining to the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of jihadism, which advocates armed jihad.

• ijtihads

jihadist c

1. a jihadist

• jihad
• jihadism
• jihadistisk