Home›Open Questions›What Was the Total Death Toll of the Third Fitna?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Total Death Toll of the Third Fitna?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Total Death Toll of the Third Fitna?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-third-fitna.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Total Death Toll of the Third Fitna?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-third-fitnaCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-thi, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Was the Total Death Toll of the Third Fitna?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-third-fitna}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe Third Fitna combined provincial uprisings across the Umayyad caliphate with the Abbasid Revolution that ultimately overthrew it, fought in different regions at different times with a final purge of the Umayyad family at its close, and the scholarship follows that sequence of events narratively rather than tallying deaths across it.What would resolve this A historian's combined accounting of the war's provincial battles and the Abbasid purge of the Umayyad family that followed, or a source critical study of the surviving casualty claims.OpenEarly Islamic history, Abbasid history.Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh CenturyCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnThird Fitna, Wars & Conflicts Well-attested SourcesThe Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Centurytier 1Hugh Kennedy, Routledge, 2016View the SourceComments (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