Holy War

Holy war may refer to:

  • A religious war led with an exceptionally high grade of religious feeling
  • The Crusades, 11th, 12th, and 13th-century religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against Muslim Persia and Middle East.
  • The Herem referred to in the Hebrew Bible.
  • Reconquista
  • Seisen, the name given by Showa era propaganda to the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the slogan hakko ichiu.
  • Taiping Rebellion
  • Spread of Islam
  • Jewish–Roman wars
  • Arab-Israeli Wars (disambiguation)
  • Way of the Celestial Masters
  • Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion
  • Jihad (generally translated into English as "Holy War"), in Islam
  • Wars of Religion (France)
  • European wars of religion

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Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or war:

    “One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!”
    —Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

    “Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)