Talk:Battle of al-Asnam

Notes

Is all the right things capitalised? Also, was the battle in ancient Algeria or Tunisia where Kairouan is linked in too? Govvy (talk) 12:51, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

hello @Govvy if you feel there's any grammatical error you're free to correct it.

for you second question the battle happened in Chlef or Chlef Province where the Arabs used to call it Al-Asnam because it contained many statues, Berber rebels aimed to capture Kairouan in their whole campaign in Ifriqiya nothing says about a battle happening near it.

regards. عبدالرحمن4132 (talk) 14:54, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Hiya, I read the article and wasn't sure, but some of the names looked like they should be capitalised, however I am unsure on that. Also it might be helpful to the reader to explain the modern day locations better in the prose? Regards. Govvy (talk) 15:00, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Numbers of berbers troops & death

The figures regarding the number of deaths and the size of the Berber forces are completely distorted:

1. These numbers were first reported by Al Idhari, who lived centuries after this confrontation, and as a result, they are exaggerated and based on no reliable sources.

2. Additionally, the American historian Khalid Yahya Blankinship argues in his book "The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishâm 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads" that "The last three sources say that the number of Berber dead at al-Asnam were one hundred eighty thousand, which is an exaggeration not to be trusted even in a vague way, as it may have been invented by the caliphal tradition to counterbalance the earlier record of utter failure in the Berber war." MaybeDailyHistory (talk) 18:03, 12 September 2024 (UTC)