Podcast about the Khārijites with Dr. Hannah-Lena Hagemann
12. März 2022, von AAI Webmaster
For the new episode of Tell Me a History, a German-speaking podcast series on Islamic history by Dr. Nadja Danilenko, Dr. Hannah-Lena Hagemann has been invited to talk about the Khārijites. She emphasises that despite the Khārijites' involvement in important power struggles in the early Islamic period, they often remain sketchy in the (Sunnī) sources. In this episode, titled "Feinde nach Bedarf" (Picking (and Choosing) Your Enemies), Dr. Hagemann discusses how the Khawārīj are depicted in the written sources and why they are often used as 'the Other'. Moreover, she gives an overview of the emergence and the development of the group(s) to which we refer with the umbrella term Khārijites.
You can listen to the episode here (in German): https://tellmeahistory.net/tmah048-feinde-nach-bedarf/