The Qurrá (KURRA)

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The article before you is a brief discussion of the Qurrؤ. author has tried, through the The distinction of the qari from the People of the qurra , to prove that the usage of the word qurra , meaning reciters of the Qurؤn, to (exclusively) refer to those who ultimately prepared grounds for the rise of Kharijites has caused ambiguity and even confusion in Islam's history. In the author's opinion, if we consider the Qurrؤ as the reciters of the Qurؤn , these reciters Should have inevitably been people who maintained a particular understanding of the Qurؤn or held unconventional views regarding the validity of Qurؤnic precepts. In heresiographical treatises or Qurؤnic recitation chronicles, however, there is no evidence to prove such a hypothesis.
Therefore, the outhor believes that the Qurrؤ , Meaning villagers or country People, who after the first battles against the Sasanians of Persia settled down in Iraq occupying the empty Southern lands of that country. In his opinion, when the interests of these People came under threats during یthman's rule, they actively contributed to the unrests of that Period; and it was these same People who finally gave tise to that certain group who founded the Kharijite sect in the end