Fitna may refer to:
- Fitna (word), an Arabic word
- Fitna (film), a 2008 short film by Geert Wilders
- The First Fitna (656–661 CE) the first Islamic "civil war" between Ali and the Umayyads
- The Second Fitna (c. 680/683-c. 685/692 CE), the second Islamic "civil war" between the Umayyads and Ibn al-Zubayr
- The Third Fitna (744–750/752 CE), including the Umayyad civil wars and the Abbasid Revolution
- The Fourth Fitna (809–827 CE), including the Abbasid civil wars and other regional conflicts
- The Fitna of al-Andalus (1009–1031 CE), in the Caliphate of Cordoba
Famous quotes containing the words civil war, civil and/or war:
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend;
Dreading e’en fools, by flatterers besieged,
And so obliging, that he ne’er obliged;
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“War. Fighting. Men ... every man in the whole realm is in the army.... Every man in uniform ... An economy entirely geared to war ... but there is not much war ... hardly any fighting ... yet every man a soldier from birth till death ... Men ... all men for fighting ... but no war, no wars to fight ... what is it, what does it mean?””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)