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Muslim conquest of Egypt
Part of the Muslim conquests and Byzantine-Arab Warslick
Date 639–642 Location Egypt, Lybia Result Rashidun victory. Territorial changes Muslim annexed Egypt, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan.
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire	Rashidun Caliphate
Commanders and leaders
Emperor Heraclius Theodorus Cyrus of Alexandria	Caliph Umar Amr ibn al-Aas Zubair ibn al-Awam Miqdad bin Al-Aswad Ubaida bin As-Samit Kharija bin Huzafa

At the commencement of the Muslim conquest of Egypt, Egypt was part of the Byzantine Empire with its capital in Constantinople. However, it had been occupied just a decade before by the Persian Empire under Khosrau II (616 to 629 AD). Emperor Heraclius re-captured Egypt after series of brilliant campaigns against Sassanid Persians, only to once again lose it to the nearly un-stoppable Rashidun army ten years later. Before the Muslim conquest of Egypt began, Byzantine Empire had every thing it had, its economical power was destroyed once Rashidun army conquered Levant, it had lost all its trade routes and sea ports. Its hub for manpower, the Ghassanid Kingdom and Armenia were already captured By the Muslims, this all left Byzantine Empire dangerously exposed and vulnerable for the invaders.^[1]