Home›Open Questions›What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Persia?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Persia?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Persia?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-persia.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Persia?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-persiaCopy 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 Persia?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-persia}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe conquest's decisive battles at al-Qadisiyyah and Nahavand are described in the surviving Arabic sources, written generations after the events they record, and the scholarship treats those figures with caution while narrating the fall of the Sasanian empire province by province, without ever totaling losses across the whole campaign.What would resolve this A source critical study of the earliest surviving casualty claims for al-Qadisiyyah and Nahavand, combined with a historian's accounting of losses across the conquest's provincial campaigns.OpenEarly Islamic history, Sasanian 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 Persia, 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