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	Ibadi
		Ibadi is distinguished from the Sunni and Shi'i branches of Islam, and is often referred to only as Khariji.
		It is alleged that the Ibadis have a 6th pillar in their creed: jihad, the willingness to kill or be killed for Islam.
		Ibadis have quite similar institutions to Muslims of differing persuasions, both with respect to mosques, minarets and religious leaders in mosques.
	i-cias.com /e.o/ibadi.htm (944 words)

	ShaikhSiddiqui Kharijite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ibadi leadership is vested in an Imam, who is regarded as the sole legitimate leader and combines religious and political authority.
		Sultan Qabus, though an Ibadi, is not the Imam and is not recognised as the religious head of the sect.
		In 908 the Fatimids conquered the kingdom of Tahart and the Ibadi survivors migrated south.
	www.shaikhsiddiqui.com /kharijite.html (1572 words)

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		The Ibadi attitude toward kuffar ni‘ma, whether they be sinning Ibadis or non-Ibadi Muslims, was that one should practice “dissociation” (bara’a) toward them.
		It is interesting to note that British observers of Omani rule in East Africa commented that Ibadis are the least fanatic and sectarian of all Muslims, and openly associate with people of all faiths and pray together with Sunni Muslims.
		It is a sign of Rawwahi’s cosmopolitanism and his difference from earlier Ibadi scholars that he was influenced by the ideas of the Egyptian reformer Muhammad ‘Abduh, and established the first newspaper in Oman or Zanzibar, called Al-Najah, to propagate ‘Abduh’s ideas.
	www.uga.edu /islam/ibadis.html (2139 words)

	Ibadi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ibadi is distinguished from the Sunni and Shi'i branches of Islam, and is often referred to only as Khariji.
		It is alleged that the Ibadis have a 6th pillar in their creed: jihad, the willingness to kill or be killed for Islam.
		Ibadis have quite similar institutions to Muslims of differing persuasions, both with respect to mosques, minarets and religious leaders in mosques.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/ibadi.htm (944 words)

	THE IBADIS
		The Ibadis were founded by 'Abd Allah ibn-Ibad in Basra in the 680s as a moderate Khariji group opposed to armed rebellion and political assassination and willing to live in harmony with other Muslims.
		The Ibadi Imam was elected by a committee of the Mashayekh (elders, religious scholars) whose decision was publicly proclaimed.
		Ibadis are taught to show friendliness (Wilaya) to all followers of the true faith (other Ibadis), but aggressive hostility (Bara'a) towards all others.
	www.angelfire.com /az/rescon/mgcibadi.html (2985 words)

	Persian Gulf States - THE GULF IN THE MIDDLE AGES
		Ibadis originated in Iraq, but in the early eighth century, when the caliph's representative began to suppress the Ibadis, many left the area.
		Ibadi Islam has thus preserved some of the hostility toward outsiders that was a hallmark of the early Kharijites.
		Ibadi imams continued to rule in the interior, but until Europeans entered the region in the sixteenth century, Ibadi rulers were unable to reclaim the coastal cities from the Iranians.
	countrystudies.us /persian-gulf-states/10.htm (985 words)

	albawaba.com middle east news information::Ibadi - Islam's distinct sect
		The men were arrested at the start of this year, apparently in the interior of the country, a traditional stronghold of the Ibadis, the dominant group in Oman.
		The Ibadi sect developed out of the seventh-century Islamic sect known as the Khawarij, and shares with that group the desire to found a righteous Muslim society and the belief that true Muslims are only to be found in their own sect.
		The Ibadi Muslims are considered by other Muslims to be a branch of the Kharijites, which is the earliest Muslim sect which was originally among the supporters of Ali, the fourth caliph of Islam.
	www.albawaba.com /en/news/183073 (567 words)

	Ibadi Islam: An Introduction
		Ibadis distinguish between kufr ni‘ma and kufr shirk, which is the unbelief of idolatry.
		Ibadi scholars were often actively engaged in trying to actualize the true Islamic state; they poured forth their longings in poetry, even as they elaborated the foundations of piety in lengthy works of jurisprudence.
		Rawwahi was an ardent supporter of the Ibadi ideal; his scholarly writings reflect fully the tradition of Ibadi learning, and his extensive commentary on Nur al-Din al-Salimi’s poem on jurisprudence is a tribute to the range of his learning and his consistency with Ibadi tradition.
	www.islamawareness.net /Deviant/Ibadis/ibadi.html (1884 words)

	Oman, Sultanate of
		Omani tribes adopted the tenets of Ibadi Islam in the 7
		Efforts at regulating the shari’a courts were unsuccessful, leading to the establishment of separate courts and judicial tribunals to enforce state law beginning in the 1970s.
		There are both shari’a and state courts now, with the former applying Ibadi law within an increasingly limited area of jurisdiction, and the latter applying those laws promulgated by royal decree.
	www.law.emory.edu /IFL/legal/oman.htm (1277 words)

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		The Ibadi tradition of Oman has meant in practice that the interior region was, at times, a quasi-autonomous theocratic state, with its own administration usually, although not always, centered in the town of Nizwa.
		Ibadi history and doctrine, although not specified as a special class in the college, were clearly being taught and discussed.
		Hadith are all from Muslim, Bukhari and, in the Ibadi tradition, from Imam al-Rabi‘ as published by the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture.
	www.watsoninstitute.org /religionid/Limbert.doc (9420 words)

	The Ibadiyya (Ibadiyyah/Ibadi) Movement
		The Ibadis are relatively few in number in comparison to the Sunnis and the Shi'ah, and for many centuries they have lived largely in isolated areas, principally Oman and Zanzibar, Tripolitania in Libya, the island of Jerba in Tunisia, and the Mzab area of Algeria.
		The Ibadis designated such “lapsed” Muslims as infidels of a special category, classing them as hypocrites who claimed to be Muslims but whose deeds showed them to be ungrateful for the blessings of God (kafir kufr ni'ma).
		Ibadis who are corrupt or do serious wrong also lose their walaya.
	www.islamawareness.net /Deviant/Ibadis/ibadiyya.html (1420 words)

	CHAPTER 8 THE IBADIS
		They are to be found today in Oman (1.2m), North Africa (the Mzab Oases 150,000, Jerbah Island 50,000, Zuwarah 15,000 and Jebel Nafusah 50,000) and Zanzibar (10,000), and are the only Khariji sect to survive into the present.
		The Ibadis are strict legalists who oppose all innovation.
		At the time of the Beduin invasion in the 11th century, the Ibadis of Tripolitania withdrew to Jabal-Nafusah where they preserved their faith and their Berber language and customs.
	members.fortunecity.com /davidz/MGCIBADI.htm (3001 words)

	MuslimHeritage.com - Topics
		It was at that point that the Ibadi school began to take shape, and hence it is known by Abdullah ibn Ibad's name, although Ibadi sources give him a secondary role in its establishment.
		Moreover, the Ibadi school needed to make its views clearly understood in an environment when numerous groups, splinter groups, ideas and principles were appearing in the Muslim world.
		The third source the Ibadi school accepts as a basis of rulings is the views of the Prophet's companions.
	www.muslimheritage.com /topics/default.cfm?TaxonomyTypeID=107&TaxonomySubTypeID=-1&TaxonomyThirdLevelID=-1&ArticleID=483 (2340 words)

	Middle East Online
		They said their clients' possession of weapons was in keeping with Omani norms and that the worst they could be accused of was holding firearms without a permit.
		It has a public arm which organizes pilgrimages and youth summer camps, and an underground wing that strives for the establishment of an imamate in Oman in accordance with the teachings of their faith, according to the charge sheet.
		An offshoot of a dissident Shiite sect, the Ibadis are named after their founder, Abdullah bin Ibadh al-Maqissi, originally from Ibadh in Saudi Arabia.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=13318 (606 words)

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