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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|image=[[Image:Greekfire-madridskylitzes1.jpg|center|300px]]
|caption=[[Greek fire]], first used by the [[Byzantine Navy]] during the Byzantine-Arab Wars.
|conflict=Byzantine-Arab Wars
|partof=the [[Muslim conquests]]
|date=629-1180
|place= Levant, Syria, Egypt, North Africa, Anatolia, Crete, Sicily, Southern Italy
(contracted; show full)

== Later conflicts ==
{{main|Byzantine–Arab Wars (780–1180)|History of Islam in southern Italy|Macedonian dynasty}}
{{see also|Iconoclasm}}
The primary conflict ended with the siege of Constantinople in 718, and although later conflicts continued into the 11th century, the conquests of the Arabs began to retard. Arab attempts at taking [[Anatolia]] failed
, and it was eventually taken instead by the [[Seljuk Turks]].

=== Iconoclast controversy ===
Among the effects of the Byzantine-Arab Wars was the religious and civil unrest it stirred in the heart of [[Byzantium]].  The ''Iconomachia'', or "Wars of the [[Icon]]s", began when a 726 edict of Leo the Isaurian decreed the [[crucifix]] be replaced by a plain [[Cross]], sparking off the controversy of [[Iconoclasm]].<ref name="Europe245"/> Writings suggest that at least part of the reason for the removal may have been militar(contracted; show full)[[Category:Battles involving the Umayyad Caliphate]]

[[ar:حروب العرب والبيزنطيين]]
[[cs:Byzantsko-arabské války]]
[[fr:Guerres entre Arabes et empire byzantin]]
[[it:Guerre arabo-bizantine (780-1180)]]
[[nl:Byzantijns-Arabische oorlogen]]
[[ru:Арабо-византийские войны]]