Home›Open Questions›What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of the Levant?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of the Levant?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of the Levant?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-the-levant.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of the Levant?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-the-levantCopy 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 the Levant?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-total-death-toll-of-the-muslim-conquest-of-the-levant}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe Byzantine and early Islamic sources for the conquest's decisive battle at Yarmouk disagree sharply on the size of the forces involved, and the conquest itself unfolded as a long sequence of sieges and smaller engagements across Syria and Palestine that the scholarship narrates city by city rather than totals.What would resolve this A source critical study reconciling the Byzantine and early Islamic casualty traditions for Yarmouk, combined with a historian's accounting of losses across the conquest's separate sieges.OpenEarly Islamic history, Byzantine 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 the Levant, 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