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
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“Insurrection:... insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)