Significant658 CE
Battle of Nahrawan
Nahrawan canal · near Baghdad · Iraq
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
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.
Belligerents2
- Caliph Ali (Rashidun Caliphate)
- Kharijites
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Nahrawan
- Britannica: Battle of Nahrawan
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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