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|image=[[File: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=634–1057
|place= Levant, Syria, Egypt, North Africa, Anatolia, Crete, Sicily, Southern Italy
|result= Overall Arab gains, despite [[Byzantine-Arab Wars (780–1180)|Byzantine resurgence]]
(contracted; show full)asty|Isaurian emperors]] adopted the policy of [[Byzantine Iconoclasm|Iconoclasm]], which was abandoned in 786 only to be readopted in the 820s and finally abandoned in 843. Under the [[Macedonian dynasty]], exploiting the decline and fragmentation of the [[Abbasid Caliphate]], the Byzantines gradually went into the offensive, and recovered much territory in the 10th century, which was lost however after 1071 to the [[Seljuk Turks]].

=== Raids under the last Umayyads and the rise of Iconoclasm ===
[[File:
Arab-Byzantine-Arab naval struggle.pn frontier zone.svg|thumb|right|250px|Map of the Byzantine-Arab naval antagonism in the Mediterranean, 7th to 11th centuriesfrontier zone in southeastern [[Asia Minor]], along the Taurus-Antitaurus range]]
Following the failure to capture Constantinople in 717–718, the Umayyads for a time diverted their attention elsewhere, allowing the Byzantines to take to the offensive, making some gains in Armenia. From 720/721 however the Arab armies resumed their expeditions against Byzantine Anatolia, although now they were no longer aimed at conquest, but rather large-scale raids, plundering and devastating the countryside and only occasionally attacking forts or major settlements.<ref name="Blankinship&quo(contracted; show full)[[ms:Perang Arab-Byzantine]]
[[nl:Byzantijns-Arabische oorlogen]]
[[ja:アラブ・東ローマ戦争]]
[[pt:Guerras bizantino-árabes]]
[[ro:Războaiele bizantino-arabe]]
[[ru:Арабо-византийские войны]]
[[fi:Bysantin–arabien sodat]]
[[th:สงครามไบแซนไทน์-อาหรับ]]