ghazi

Definitions

1. A Muslim warrior who fights in war against non-Muslims, especially one who has won renown as a martial champion; often used as a title.
2. A surname from Arabic.

Equivalents

Examples

“I should have⟳ fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.”

“Then suddenly, an hour before first light⟳, wave⟳ after wave⟳ of screaming tribesmen, led by suicide-bent Muslim fanatics known as ghazis, began to hurl themselves against the British positions.”

“On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan’s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes.”

“The 14th century also witnessed Ottoman campaigns against fellow Turks and Muslims[…]In accordance with their portrayal of the early Ottomans as ghazi-warriors, 15th-century Ottoman chroniclers often ignored these conflicts (along with the Ottomans' alliances with Christians), claiming that the Ottomans acquired the territories of the neighboring Turkic principalities through peaceful means (purchase⟳ and/or marriage).”

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