Khariji
English
Etymology
From Arabic خارجي (“abandoner, quitter”).
Noun
Khariji (plural Kharijis)
- (Islam, historical) A member of an early Islamic sect who initially supported Ali but then seceded from his army; a Kharijite.
- 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, p. 247:
- His keynote speech was delivered on his arrival, incognito, in al-Kufah, which at the time was a focus of Khariji dissidence.
- 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, p. 247: