WikiIslam:Sandbox/List of Muslim Wars

Battle Year Place Country Combatants Casualties Remarks


Ridda Wars
First Fitna
Second Fitna
Zanj Rebellion


Ottoman–Mamluk War 1485–91


Ottoman–Mamluk War 1516–17 13,000+[1]


First Rohilla War 1773–1774 Rohilla Pashtuns vs. Nawab of Awadh + British
Second Rohilla War (temporary) 1794
Ottoman-Saudi war 1811-1818 Ottoman Empire, Egypt Eyalet vs. Emirate of Diriyah 16,000 Many settlements were pillaged and civilians were persecuted.[2]
Egyptian–Ottoman War 1831-1833 3262+[3]
Egyptian–Ottoman War 1839-1841


Sheikh Said rebellion 1925 Turkey 15,000[4]–250,000
Saudi-Yemini War 1934 2100[5]
North Yemen Civil War 1962-1970 100,000–200,000
Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 200,000-1,200,000
Algerian Civil War 1991-2002 44,000–150,000


Ottoman Civil War 1403-1413

Ottoman Civil War 1481-1482

Ottoman-Druze War 1585[6] More to add from this source

  1. Dupuy p.540
  2. Bowen, Wayne H. (2008). The History of Saudi Arabia. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0313340123. OCLC 166388162.
  3. Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History, HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. p.851.
  4. The Militant Kurds: A Dual Strategy for Freedom, Vera Eccarius-Kelly, page 86, 2010
  5. Rongxing Guo. Cross border resource management, theory and practice. Ed. S. V. Krupa. Elsevier, 2005. p.115.
  6. George Childs Kohn. Dictionary of Wars (Revised ed.). Routledge. p. 345-346. ISBN 9781135954949, 31-Oct-2013. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=qTDfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=Selim+the+Grim+massacres+40,000+Anatolian+Shi%27ites&source=bl&ots=k5Gsi1N74k&sig=H3vKEGF7_yCa3v4detrpUywLH7E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr3fyt9qzVAhUDrJQKHahrDtcQ6AEIMTAD#v=onepage&q=Selim%20the%20Grim%20massacres%2040%2C000%20Anatolian%20Shi'ites&f=false.