A Path to Understand the Takfiris: Similarities of Takfiris and Kharijites

Abstract

Political behaviors of Takfiris have made many scholars to think aboutsimilarities of this stream with the early Kharijites of Imam Ali’s era. There aremany signs of similar behaviors, arguments, and theoretical stances between thetwo which makes us think about the conceptualization of neo-Kharijites. In thispaper, as hypothesis it has been argued that Takfiris can be considered neoKharijites as they refer to the past with information to reveal unknowns.The methodology of the research is comparative. Some efforts have been madeto decode mysteries of the behaviors of the Takfiris and to extract some patternsfrom the actions of Kharijites to analyze Takfiris. In this paper, we identifiedtwenty five similarities in believes, and manners between these traditional andmodern streams

Keywords

• kharijites
• takfiris
• neo- kharijites
• political ideology of islam