Home›Open Questions›What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Iberia?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Iberia?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Iberia?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-iberia.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Iberia?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-iberiaCopy 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 Iberia?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-iberia}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe Visigothic kingdom's defeat at the battle traditionally called Guadalete is described by the near contemporary Chronicle of 754 and by the modern historians who draw on it, but the campaign's rapid overrunning of the Iberian Peninsula afterward is narrated as a sequence of surrenders and sieges rather than quantified, and no historian totals losses across the whole conquest.What would resolve this A source critical study of the Chronicle of 754's account of Guadalete combined with a historian's estimate of losses during the conquest's rapid overrunning of the peninsula's cities.OpenEarly Islamic history, Visigothic 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 Iberia, 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