Battle of Qantish

{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Battle of Qantish | place = Qantish | date = 5 November 1009 | partof = Fitna of al-Andalus | image = Map Iberian Peninsula 1000-es.svg | image_size = 300 | caption = The Iberian Peninsula in 1000 AD | result = Berber-Castilian victory * Sulayman ibn al-Hakam becomes Caliph of Córdoba * Sack of Córdoba | combatant1 = Berbers<br>County of Castile | combatant2 = Caliphate of Córdoba | commander1 = Sulayman ibn al-Hakam<br>Zawi ibn Ziri<br>Sancho García of Castile | commander2 = Muhammad II of Córdoba<br>Wadih al-Siqlabi<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scales |first=Peter C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-Wvg__iHPAC&dq=Alcal%C3%A1+de+Henares+wadih&pg=PA72 |title=The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba: Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict |date=1993-12-31 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-09868-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Amabe |first=Fukuzo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EAEKDAAAQBAJ&dq=Alcal%C3%A1+de+Henares+wadih&pg=PA102 |title=Urban Autonomy in Medieval Islam: Damascus, Aleppo, Cordoba, Toledo, Valencia and Tunis |date=2016-04-18 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-31598-3 |language=en}}</ref> | casualties2 = 10,000-30,000 killed<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maqqari |first=̄ Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad al- |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaxCAAAAcAAJ&dq=battle+of+guadiaro&pg=PA547-IA6 |title=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 |date=1843 |publisher=Oriental Translation Fund |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Amabe |first=Fukuzo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EAEKDAAAQBAJ&dq=Alcal%C3%A1+de+Henares+wadih&pg=PA102 |title=Urban Autonomy in Medieval Islam: Damascus, Aleppo, Cordoba, Toledo, Valencia and Tunis |date=2016-04-18 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-31598-3 |language=en}}</ref> | casualties1 = Unknown }}

The '''Battle of Qantish''' (5 November 1009) was a battle of the Fitna of al-Andalus that took place in the mountainous region of Qantish, east of Córdoba. The battle was fought between the forces of Caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba and his general Wadih al-Siqlabi against 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.

The battle ended in a decisive victory for Sulayman ibn al-Hakam and his ally Sancho García. Muhammad II fled after suffering a crushing defeat by the Berbers. Estimates of the Córdoban troops killed range from 10,000 to 30,000.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maqqari |first= Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad al- |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aaxCAAAAcAAJ&dq=battle+of+guadiaro&pg=PA547-IA6 |title=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 |date=1843 |publisher=Oriental Translation Fund |language=en}}</ref><ref>استشهاد بهارفارد دون أقواس عنان Ref=دولة الإسلام في الأندلس، الجزء الأول 1997 p=646-647{{full citation needed|date=June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Amabe |first=Fukuzo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EAEKDAAAQBAJ&dq=Alcal%C3%A1+de+Henares+wadih&pg=PA102 |title=Urban Autonomy in Medieval Islam: Damascus, Aleppo, Cordoba, Toledo, Valencia and Tunis |date=2016-04-18 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-31598-3 |language=en}}</ref> On 8 November 1009, Sulayman and the Berbers entered Córdoba in triumph<ref name=":0" /> and sacked the city.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Manjunath.R |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=17I2EAAAQBAJ&dq=Muhammad+II+of+C%C3%B3rdoba&pg=PA1698 |title=Timelines of Nearly Everything |date=2021-07-03 |publisher=Manjunath.R |language=en}}</ref> Sulayman was then installed on the throne by Zawi ibn Ziri and was proclaimed caliph with the honorific title "al-Musta'in" given by Zawi.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Colin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zl4vDwAAQBAJ&dq=zawi+ibn+ziri+siege+of+C%C3%B3rdoba&pg=PA63 |title=Christians and Moors in Spain |last2=Melville |first2=Charles Peter |last3=ʻUbaydlī |first3=Aḥmad |date=1988 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-85668-450-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Hugh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NFfJAwAAQBAJ&dq=siege+of+cordoba+sulayman&pg=PA127 |title=Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus |date=2014-06-11 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-87041-8 |language=en}}</ref>

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