Fitna
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Fitna or Fitnah may refer to:
- Fitna (word), an Arabic term meaning 'trial' or 'civil strife'; also used for the following individual events:
- First Fitna (656–661 CE), a war of succession in the Rashidun Caliphate between Ali and the Umayyads (and Aisha)
- Second Fitna (c. 680/683–c. 685/692 CE), a war between the Umayyads and Ibn al-Zubayr
- Third Fitna (744–750/752 CE), including the Umayyad civil wars and the Abbasid Revolution
- Fourth Fitna (811–813/827 CE), including the civil war between caliph al-Amin and Crown prince al-Ma'mun and other regional conflicts
- Fifth Fitna (865–866 CE), between caliphs al-Mu'tazz and al-Musta'in
- Fitna of al-Andalus (1009–1031 CE), in the Caliphate of Córdoba
- Fitna (film), a 2008 short film by Geert Wilders
- Fitnah (crater), on Saturn's moon Enceladus
See also
[edit]- Fitnat al-Wahhabiyya, a short book about Wahhabism by Ahmad Zaini Dahlan