I Need Help...

[McNulty]

Hello, me again.
I'm having trouble with the Jihad. I'm playing as a Moslem nation but I can't get my Jihad started. I click on the marker, but unlike when I wanted a Crusade started, none of the other areas have highlighted. What am I doing wrong?

[Martok]

Hello, me again.
I'm having trouble with the Jihad. I'm playing as a Moslem nation but I can't get my Jihad started. I click on the marker, but unlike when I wanted a Crusade started, none of the other areas have highlighted. What am I doing wrong?

Unlike Crusades, Jihads can only be used to retake territory you once possessed. In other words, you first have to lose a province, and then you can send a Jihad there to reclaim it.

Although I personally do not use it, there is a way to get around this limitation. You can invade a province--you don't even need to take the castle--and then retreat after one year, allowing the former owner to reclaim it. You may then lanuch a Jihad to that province, since the game will consider you to have "owned" it, even though it was for only a turn.