Tasnif Style Guide

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54 TAŞNİF STYLE GUIDE British English- jihad | d31'had (also jehad) noun Islam (also lesser jihad) a struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam: he declared a jihad against the infidels | [mass noun]: the importance of jihad as a uniting force. (also greater jihad) the spiritual struggle within oneself against sin. ORIGIN from Arabic jihad, literally 'effort', expressing, in Muslim thought, struggle on behalf of God and Islam. The first definition used to be the only definition provided by the OED; however, this was updated more recently to include the 'greater jihad' definition. The essential point is that the migration of foreign terms into the English language is an evolutionary pro- cess. It is not always black and white. 4. Foreign terms should not be capitalized unless they are proper nouns. Foreign Terms that do Not Appear in the OED See Chapter 12, Translation Guide under the same heading as above, page 140.