ghazwa

The slavers justified their depredations by forcing their slaves to convert to Islam, and they masked their greed by using the Koranic term ghazwa to describe their raids, after the early battles of the Prophet Mohammed, who had taken slaves and concubines from the defeated non-Muslims of Arabia.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

The slavers justified their depredations by forcing their slaves to convert to Islam, and they masked their greed by using the Koranic term ghazwa to describe their raids, after the early battles of the Prophet Mohammed, who had taken slaves and concubines from the defeated non-Muslims of Arabia.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

The slavers justified their depredations by forcing their slaves to convert to Islam, and they masked their greed by using the Koranic term ghazwa to describe their raids, after the early battles of the Prophet Mohammed, who had taken slaves and concubines from the defeated non-Muslims of Arabia.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Jihadist forums also serve to inspire members to take part in a ghazwa (raid or incursion) into non-jihadist websites.

Amarnath Amarasingam: What Jihadists Talk About Online Amarnath Amarasingam 2010

Jihadist forums also serve to inspire members to take part in a ghazwa (raid or incursion) into non-jihadist websites.

Amarnath Amarasingam: What Jihadists Talk About Online Amarnath Amarasingam 2010

Every year, each of the thirty thousand slaves sold at the coast represented as many as nine others who had been massacred in a ghazwa or abandoned on the road.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Every year, each of the thirty thousand slaves sold at the coast represented as many as nine others who had been massacred in a ghazwa or abandoned on the road.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Every year, each of the thirty thousand slaves sold at the coast represented as many as nine others who had been massacred in a ghazwa or abandoned on the road.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Despite the vagaries of frequent feuds and raids (ghazwa), Arab tribes from surrounding areas journeyed to Mecca during truce months to worship at the polytheist shrine of the Ka’ba.

b. Muhammad and the Rise of Islam 2001

Thirdly, this hadith mentions only a single or particular battle (ghazwa), and not a series of continuing battles, unlike what the author of the article in the 'Muhaddith', referred to above, echoing the arguments of Pakistani self-styled jihadists, claims.

Indian Muslims 2009