La rivolta araba (in arabo الثورة العربية?, al-Thawra al-ʿArabiyya), svoltasi fra il 1916 e il 1918, fu avviata dallo sharīf de La Mecca, al-Husayn ibn ʿAlī, dietro la promessa che gli Alleati avrebbero procurato agli arabi la completa indipendenza dal giogo turco-ottomano, qualora essi avessero combattuto contro Istanbul nella prima guerra mondiale.
- ^ a b David Murphy, The Arab Revolt 1916–18 Lawrence sets Arabia Ablaze, Osprey, Londra 2008, ISBN 978-1-84603-339-1, pagina 26
- ^ Mehmet Bahadir Dördüncü, Mecca-Medina: the Yıldız albums of Sultan Abdülhamid II, Tughra Books, 2006, ISBN 1-59784-054-8, page 29. Number refers only to those laying siege to Medina by the time it surrendered and does not account for Arab insurgents elsewhere.
- ^ Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt: The first modern intelligence war, Polly a. Mohs, ISBN 1-134-19254-1, Routledge, p. 41.
- ^ Erickson 2001, p. 238, Appendix F.
- ^ Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War 1914–1920, The War Office, p. 633: 8,000 prisoners taken by the Arab insurgents in Syria-Palestine in 1918, joining 98,600 taken by the British.
- ^ Parnell, p. 75: 6,000 prisoners taken by the end of 1916
- ^ Süleyman Beyoğlu, The end broken point of Turkish - Arabian relations: The evacuation of Medine, Atatürk Atatürk Research Centre Journal (Number 78, Edition: XXVI, November 2010) (Turkish). 8,000 Ottoman troops surrendered at the end of the Siege of Medina and were evacuated to Egypt afterwards.