Source‐Critical Methodologies in Recent Scholarship on the Khārijites

Many of the difficulties involved in researching the Khārijites come from the lack of primary Khārijite sources, and the subsequent need for scholars to rely on problematic non‐Khārijite sources such as heresiography. This article will devote considerable attention to recent source‐critical scholarship in English on the early medieval Khārijites ( khawārij ), excluding the Ibāiyya, as well as the use of the appellation ‘Khārijite’ as a modern phenomenon.