vanguard : Idioms & Phrases


vanguards of conquest

  • noun an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells
    Egyptian Islamic Jihad; Islamic Jihad; al-Jihad.
    • the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981
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