Significant632 CE – 763 CE · 131 years

Early Islamic civil wars

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Iraq · Saudi Arabia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Civil wars of the early caliphate, from the Ridda wars through the First, Second and Third Fitnas to the Abbasid consolidation.

Belligerents6

Umayyad Caliphate
Abbasid Caliphate
Governor of Iraq
Shiite Rebels
Ummayad Caliphate
Arab Kufans

ON THE MAPUmayyad CaliphateAbbasid Caliphate

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 8

Ridda Wars632–633 CE
Second Fitna680–692 CE
Battle of Dayr al-Jamajim701 CE
Battle of Maskin701 CE
Battle of Akra721 CE
Third Fitna744–750 CE
Battle of Medina, Saudi Arabia762 CE
Battle of Bakhamra763 CE

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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