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What Does Jihad Mean? by Douglas E. Streusand Middle East Quarterly September 1997 http://www.meforum.org/357/what-does-jihad-mean Print Send RSS Share: Douglas E. Streusand is the author of The Formation of the Mughal Empire (Oxford University Press, 1989) and The Islamic Gunpowder Empires in World History (Westview Press, forthcoming). Jihad, routinely translated as “holy war,” often makes headlines. [...]