Khariji

English

Etymology

From Arabic خارجي (“abandoner, quitter”).

Noun

Khariji (plural Kharijis)

1. (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, page 247:

     His keynote speech was delivered on his arrival, incognito, in al-Kufah, which at the time was a focus of Khariji dissidence.