Najda ibn Amir al-Hanafi
Head of Kharijite state from 685 to 691/692 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Najda ibn Amir al-Hanafi (Arabic: نجدة بن عامر الحنفي, romanized: Najda ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḥanafī; c. 655–691/92) was the head of a breakaway Kharijite state in central and eastern Arabia between 685 and his death at the hands of his own partisans. His emergence formed part of the Second Muslim Civil War and the faction he led stood in opposition to the Umayyad Caliphate, which controlled Syria and Egypt, and the caliphate of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, which controlled the Hejaz and Iraq.