Mujahideen
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Mujahideen or mujahidin, is the plural form of mujahid, an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religio
U.S. President Reagan meeting with Afghan mujahideen at the White House in 1983
Jihadism
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Jihadism is the ideology of modern, armed militant Islamic movements that seek to establish states based on Islamic principles. In a narrower sense, it refers to the belief that armed confrontation is
Afghan mujahideen praying in the Kunar Province, Afghanistan (1987)
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaeda promoted the overthrow of secular governments.
Egyptian Muslim scholar Sayyid Qutb through his prison-writings constituted the ideological basis of the Salafi-jihadist movement.
Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is widely regarded as one of the influential Salafi jihadists.