Home›Open Questions›What Was the Total Death Toll of the Fourth Fitna?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Total Death Toll of the Fourth Fitna?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Total Death Toll of the Fourth Fitna?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-fourth-fitna.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Total Death Toll of the Fourth Fitna?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-fourth-fitnaCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-fou, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Was the Total Death Toll of the Fourth Fitna?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-fourth-fitna}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe Fourth Fitna's central event, the prolonged siege of Baghdad during the civil war between the brothers al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, is described in narrative detail by the historians who study it, but none converts that description into a casualty estimate for the siege, and the war's fighting beyond Baghdad is even less quantified.What would resolve this A military historian's estimate of deaths during the siege of Baghdad combined with an accounting of the civil war's fighting in the wider caliphate.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 OnFourth 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