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
  • the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  al-Jihad , Egyptian Islamic Jihad , Islamic Jihad , Vanguards of Conquest