Battle of Nahrawan

658 CE · Caliph Ali (Rashidun Caliphate) vs Kharijites

In July 658 Caliph Ali crushed the Kharijites, his former supporters who had broken with him after the Siffin arbitration, at the Nahrawan canal; the surviving Kharijite hostility led to Ali's assassination in 661.

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