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THE BAYAZI. 



They are now mostly confined to a few cities in 

 Morocco, and to the parts abont Maskat. Some 

 theological writers derive these Kharijites from 

 the malcontents who declared that both Ali and 

 Muawiyah had forfeited their right to the Ca- 

 liphate by appealing from Allah's judgment to 

 human decisions, and who carried out their ob- 

 jection by murdering Ali and by attempting the 

 murder of Muawiyah and Amru. Their descend- 

 ants are held to have formed 20 schools like the 

 Shiahs (or Rawafiz) and the Mutazali; whilst 

 the Marjiyyeh number six; the Mujbirah or 

 Sunnites four, and, together with the Batiniyah, 

 the Hululiyah, and the Zaydi, make up the 73 

 divisions into which the first Moslem declared 

 El Islam would split. The principal Kharijite 

 schools (Usui el Firak) have, however, been re- 

 duced to the following five. The first four are 

 now common only in books. 



1. The Azarikah, or followers of Abu Rashid 

 Nan' ibn el Azrak. They permit, in religious 

 warfare, the massacre of women and children; 

 they do not lapidate adulterers, Koranic command 

 being absent, and they severely punish the male, 

 not the female, slanderer of the Faithful. 



2. The Najdat, disciples of Najdat bin Amir, 

 formerly abounded in Mekran, Kerman, Mosul, 



