Kharijite facts for kids

Kharijites were a movement during the early years of Islam. This movement has no followers today. At first they accepted the rule of Ali, but rejected him to later support the view that Abu Bakr, and his successors were the rightful Caliphs. The only group of Kharijites that still exists are the Ibadi. The Ibadi do not consider themselves to be Kharijite. Most Ibadis live in Oman. Smaller numbers live in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Zanzibar.

Sometimes, the term Kharijite (or Neo-Kharijite) is also used for some Islamic terrorist groups. Examples of such groups are the Groupe islamique armé in Algeria, or the Takfir wal-Hijra in Egypt.

Images for kids

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  Rebellions in the garrison towns of Kufa, Basra, and Fustat ended with the death of the third caliph Uthman. The subsequent First Muslim Civil War gave rise to the Kharijites.

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  The Battle of Siffin as depicted in the 14th-century manuscript of the Tarikh-i Bal'ami

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  The Battle of Nahrawan took place near the Nahrawan Canal, which ran parallel to the east bank of the Tigris.

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  A 1909 photograph of the Nahrawan Canal

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  Arab-Sasanian dirham of the Azariqa leader Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a, struck circa 694–695, with the Kharijite slogan la hukma illa li-llah on the obverse margin

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  The Sufri Midrarid dynasty of Sijilmasa (green) lasted for around 150 years.

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  The tribal origins of the identified Kharijite leaders from the Umayyad period (661–750)

See also

In Spanish: Jariyismo para niños