The state and the policy of dialogue and reconciliation with the Kharijites in the Umayyad era

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The issue of the Kharijites is considered one of the thorniest issues in Islamic history. The Kharijites, with their practices and rebellions, and with the ideas they carried, constituted a state of existential threat to the Islamic State, not to mention the dangerous subversive ideas they carried, and the most dangerous are their polarizing tools through which they were able to tickle the feelings and ideas of many. Among the elements they attracted either as a result of revolutionary ideas or other polarizing tools represented by mobilizational slogans or employing and exploiting the feelings of those dissatisfied with Umayyad rule or even through political money.
Here, the state, as a political system charged with protecting the state geographically, security-wise, and intellectually, had to play its role, and in general, most of what the pens directed adopted the security and military solutions implemented by the Umayyad state
Here lies the issue of this research, and its basic idea revolves around answering the following question: Did the Umayyad state follow means and mechanisms other than military and security solutions?
The research will focus on policies of reconciliation and dialogue

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