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