Battle of Qantish

Battle of Qantish
	Part of Fitna of al-Andalus
	; The Iberian Peninsula in 1000 AD
Date	5 November 1009
Location	Qantish
Result	Berber-Castilian victory Sulayman ibn al-Hakam becomes Caliph of Córdoba; Sack of Córdoba;
Belligerents
Berbers; County of Castile	Caliphate of Córdoba
Commanders and leaders
Sulayman ibn al-Hakam; Zawi ibn Ziri; Sancho García of Castile	Muhammad II of Córdoba
Casualties and losses
Unknown	20,000 killed

The Battle of Qantish (13 Rabi' al-Awwal 400 AH / 5 November 1009 CE) was a conflict that took place during the events of the Fitna of al-Andalus, in the mountainous region of Qantish, east of Córdoba. The battle was fought between the forces of Caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba and those of Prince Sulayman ibn al-Hakam, whose army was primarily composed of Berbers of al-Andalus who had been persecuted by the caliph and the people of Córdoba. Sulayman was allied with Castilian forces led by Sancho García of Castile, Count of Castile. It ended in a decisive victory for Sulayman ibn al-Hakam and his ally Sancho, after Muhammad II of Córdoba fled after suffering a crushing defeat by the Berbers in which around 20,000 of his troops were killed.^[1]^[2] On 8 November 1009 , Sulayman entered Córdoba and sacked it^[3], he was then proclaimed Caliph with the honorific title "al-Musta'in" given by Zawi ibn Ziri .^[4]^[5]

References

^ Maqqari, ̄ Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad al- (1843). The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain: Extracted from the Nafhu-t-Tib Min Ghosni-l-Andalusi-r-Rattib ... by Aḥmad B. Muḥammad Al Makkari. Oriental Translation Fund.
^ Template:استشهاد بهارفارد دون أقواس
^ Manjunath.R (2021-07-03). Timelines of Nearly Everything. Manjunath.R.
^ Kennedy, Hugh (2014-06-11). Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-87041-8.
^ Smith, Colin; Melville, Charles Peter; ʻUbaydlī, Aḥmad (1988). Christians and Moors in Spain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-85668-450-0.

[1] Maqqari, ̄ Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad al- (1843). The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain: Extracted from the Nafhu-t-Tib Min Ghosni-l-Andalusi-r-Rattib ... by Aḥmad B. Muḥammad Al Makkari. Oriental Translation Fund.

[2] Template:استشهاد بهارفارد دون أقواس

[3] Manjunath.R (2021-07-03). Timelines of Nearly Everything. Manjunath.R.

[4] Kennedy, Hugh (2014-06-11). Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-87041-8.

[5] Smith, Colin; Melville, Charles Peter; ʻUbaydlī, Aḥmad (1988). Christians and Moors in Spain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-85668-450-0.

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