Home›Open Questions›What Was the Total Death Toll of the Second Fitna?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Total Death Toll of the Second Fitna?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Total Death Toll of the Second Fitna?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-second-fitna.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Total Death Toll of the Second Fitna?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-second-fitnaCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-sec, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Was the Total Death Toll of the Second Fitna?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-second-fitna}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe Second Fitna was fought across several separate fronts at once, the killing of Husayn at Karbala, the siege of Mecca, and provincial fighting over the caliphate itself, and the scholarship studies each front on its own terms, Karbala above all, rather than combining them into one casualty figure for the war.What would resolve this A historian's accounting combining losses at Karbala, the siege of Mecca and the war's provincial fighting into a single total, or a source critical study of the surviving casualty figures for each front.OpenEarly Islamic history, source criticism.Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh CenturyCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnSecond 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