Home›Open Questions›What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-egypt.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-egyptCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-mus, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-egypt}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe conquest is narrated through both the Coptic chronicle tradition and later Arabic accounts, which characterize the fall of Byzantine Egypt differently, and neither the individual sieges of the fortress of Babylon and of Alexandria nor the campaign as a whole has been given a casualty figure by modern historians.What would resolve this A source critical study comparing the Coptic and Arabic accounts of the conquest's losses, combined with a historian's estimate for the sieges of Babylon and Alexandria.OpenEarly Islamic history, Coptic history, source criticism.Hugh Kennedy, The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live InCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnMuslim Conquest of Egypt, Wars & Conflicts Well-attested SourcesThe Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live Intier 1Hugh Kennedy, Da Capo Press, 2007Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year