- The
battles of
Madhar and
Harura (Arabic transliteration: Yawm Madhār and Yawm
Ḥarūrāʾ)
successively took
place in the
latter half of 686 in the environs...
- As many as 12,000
dissenters seceded from the army and set up camp in
Harura, a
place near Kufa. They thus
became known as the Harurites. They held that...
-
settled at a
place near Kufa
called Harura,
becoming known as the Harurites. Ali,
after some time,
visited the
Harura camp and
persuaded the
defectors to...
- and
joined the dissidents, soon to be
known as Khārijites,
gathering at
Ḥarūrāʾ in Iraq. They
later moved to Kūfa,
where they
elected ʿAbd Allāh as their...
-
against the pro-Alid
ruler of Kufa,
Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, at the
Battle of
Harura in 686.
Muhammad was the son of al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, the
leader of the Kinda...
- Mus'ab
pursued and
annihilated the
retreating Kufans in the
Battle of
Harura, a few
miles from Kufa.
Mukhtar and his
remaining supporters took refuge...
-
while Ibn al-Zubayr's
brother Mus'ab
defeated Mukhtar at the
Battle of
Harura and
gained control of all of Iraq in 687. In 691, Abd al-Malik
managed to...
-
battles of Madhar,
located along the
Tigris between Basra and Kufa, and
Harura, a
village near Kufa. Mus'ab then
besieged Mukhtar's
palace for four months...
- in some sources). He was
killed in 686
during the
Battles of
Madhar and
Harura by the
Zubayrid army. He was born in
Basra (or
Ahvaz in some sources), maybe...
- al-Haruriyya
refers to
their withdrawal from Ali's army to the
village of
Harura' near Kufa. This
episode marked the
start of the
Kharijite movement, and...
