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>Why did kwarij lose ? They seemed to have most coherent ideology
The Kharijites were representative of traditional tribal Arabian political ideology based around virtuous strongmen gathering up leadership of tribes solely based on their own personal charisma. It was completely unsuited to the governance of the large urban-centred empire that the Muslims had conquered that required bureaucratic and/or hereditary systems of government to function and not collapse into civil war every generation. The Kharijite political vision was noble but not viable for the modern Caliphate. You can see this in the Kharijite powerbases being in the Arabian deserts among the Bedouin and with North African Berbers, basically marginal desert tribespeople.
>And why are they so villianized today
They didn't consider non-Kharijites Muslims and waged war on everyone else. The most extreme sects had an initiation ritual where you had to go out and kill one of your kinsmen not in the sect to prove that you were truly Kharijite and considered everyone else infidel.

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Why did kwarij lose ? They seemed to have most coherent ideology And why are they so villianized today

Why did kwarij lose ? They seemed to have most coherent ideology
And why are they so villianized today