Ghazāla (Arabic: غزالة زوجة شبيب; died 696 AD near Kufa) was a leader of the Kharijite movement.
She commanded troops, following in the footsteps of previous Muslim women like Juwayriyya bint al-Ḥārith at the Battle of Yarmuk.
In one battle, she made the Umayyad governor Hajjāj ibn-Yūsuf flee, and take refuge in his palace in Kufa.
[1] As a result, a poem was composed shaming him for posterity: You are a lion against me, but in the battle an ostrich which spreads its wings and hurries off on hearing the chirping of a sparrow.
However, her husband Shabib sent a horseman who killed the carrier of his wife's head, and had a proper burial for it.