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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)
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| style="text-align: left;" | [[Al-Baladhuri]]<ref>Al-Baladhuri, [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/yarmuk.html The Battle of the Yarmuk (636) and after]<br/>* Sahas (1972), 23</ref>{{ndash}} According to the Muslim historian of the ninth century, local populations regarded Byzantine rule as oppressive, and preferred Muslim rule instead.{{cref|a}}
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According to Muslim biographies, in 630 
[[Prophet Muhammed]] led a force of as many as 30,000 north to [[Tabouk]] in present-day northwestern [[Saudi Arabia]], with the intention of engaging the Byzantine army. Though not a [[battle of Tabouk|battle]] in the typical sense, if historical the event would represent the first Arab expedition against the Byzantines, which however did not lead to a military confrontation.<ref>"Muhammad", ''Late Antiquity''; Butler (2007), 145</ref> There is no contemporary Byzantine account of the(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]]