Islamic Civil War

Fitna may refer to:

  • Fitna (word), an Arabic word
  • Fitna (film), a 2008 short film by Geert Wilders
  • The First Fitna (656–661 CE) the first Islamic "civil war" between Ali and the Umayyads
  • The Second Fitna (c. 680/683-c. 685/692 CE), the second Islamic "civil war" between the Umayyads and Ibn al-Zubayr
  • The Third Fitna (744–750/752 CE), including the Umayyad civil wars and the Abbasid Revolution
  • The Fourth Fitna (809–827 CE), including the Abbasid civil wars and other regional conflicts
  • The Fitna of al-Andalus (1009–1031 CE), in the Caliphate of Cordoba

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or war:

    “I’ve never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.”
    —Victoria Gray, African American civil rights activist. As quoted in This Little Light of Mine, ch. 3, by Hay Mills (1993)

    “... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one’s own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)