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The reference quoted couldn't be traced
Under the heading "Siege of Babylon", the paragraph bears a citation 21 to Alfred Butler's book, pages 254-255. Upon referring to the book, couldn't trace the contents/suggestions of paragraph. Can someone help, please. 02:18, 25 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abbasinaseem (talk • contribs)
 * I also had problems getting quotations from "The Great Arab Conquests". It seems Google's OCR is iffy. I can't find a scanned copy of the book, and retrieving a physical copy is not reasonable. I coped by removing quotations that seem off (grammatical errors, and where there are no closing quotes) and inserting their meanings. --BurritoBazooka (talk) 17:00, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Request for the inclusion of information on Sunnis and Shias
The article talks repeatedly about invading Muslims. Would these be Sunni Muslims or Shia Muslims or something else? Or does it vary from one invasion to the next? I ask because of renewed warfare between Sunni Islamists and Shias in various countries. I understand that these days most Muslim Egyptians are Sunni, but I don't know how that came about, and I'd like this article to clarify. I think the information I'm requesting is important because so very many people don't bother to distinguish, which interferes with a clear understanding of what's going on in so many civil wars these days. Page Notes (talk) 04:29, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

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Taxation under Muslim rul
The substance here is wrong -- the "poll tax" instituted by the Arabs was probably the Jizya, applied to "dhimmi", that is non-Muslims, and was specific to Islam. The overall tax burden probably was lighter than under the East Romans (Byzantines), since they were still paying for the wars, but they did not institute taxes on "non-Christians". The point of the section, if there is to be one, should be that the overall tax burden was lessened under the new Arab conquerors, and that may have affected the population's view of their new rulers. Soft soaping the Jizya by erroneously saying it was not a new thing ends up mangling the section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sychonic (talk • contribs) 11:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC)