Hassan ibn al-Nu'man's Campaigns against al-Kahina
غزوة حسان بن النعمان للكاهنة
between 698 and 703 CE
In al-Baladhuri: Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani was appointed and raided the Berbers' queen al-Kahina, who routed him; he came to castles within Barqa's bounds and lodged them — a keep among them roofed in glass, whence they were named Qusur Hassan; then Hassan raided her a second time, killed her, and sent a captivity of Berbers to Abd al-Aziz — whereupon Abu Muhjan Nusayb the poet would say 'I was present at Abd al-Aziz's when a captivity of Berbers came: I never saw faces fairer than theirs'.
At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
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Connections
- Had participant
- Al-Kahina, Queen of the Berbers· Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani· Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan
- Occurred at
- Ifriqiya· Barqa (Cyrenaica)
People and things also explored
The Berbers· Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier· The First Raid on Ifriqiya and the Killing of Its Patrikios· The Founding of Qayrawan· Harun's Appointment of Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab over the Maghreb· Isma'il ibn Abdallah and Umar II's Mission to the Berbers· The Killing of Kulthum ibn Iyad in Ifriqiya· The Killing of Yazid ibn Abi Muslim in His Prayer-Place
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Hassan ibn al-Nu'man's Campaigns against al-Kahina”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/hassan-vs-kahina/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.