Home›Open Questions›What Was the Death Toll of the Kharijite Rebellions?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Death Toll of the Kharijite Rebellions?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Death Toll of the Kharijite Rebellions?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-death-toll-of-the-kharijite-rebellions.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Death Toll of the Kharijite Rebellions?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-death-toll-of-the-kharijite-rebellionsCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-the-death-toll-of-the-kharijite, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Was the Death Toll of the Kharijite Rebellions?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-death-toll-of-the-kharijite-rebellions}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe surviving Arabic chronicle tradition records the rebellions as a sequence of individual battles and sieges across Iraq, Persia and Arabia rather than one accounted campaign, and no modern historian has combined the separate engagements into a war-wide casualty total.What would resolve this A systematic tally of the individual battle and siege accounts already preserved in the early Arabic chronicle tradition, cross-checked against what independent evidence of the period's population and military scale can bear, of the kind no historian of the rebellions has yet undertaken.OpenEarly Islamic history; Arabic chronicle source criticismHugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh CenturyCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnThe Kharijite Rebellions (685 to 699 CE), Wars & Conflicts Well-attested ConnectedNo historian consulted has combined the rebellions' separate battle and siege accounts into an agreed total.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