Battle of Bagdoura

Battle of Bagdoura
Part of Berber Revolt
Date c.October 741 Location Sebou River, near Fes Result Decisive Berber victory
Belligerents
Umayyad Caliphate	Berber rebels
Commanders and leaders
Kulthum ibn Iyad al-Qasi † Balj ibn Bishr al-Qushayri Thalaba ibn Salama al-Amili Habib ibn Abi Obeida al-Fihri †	Khalid ibn Hamid al-Zanati Salim Abu Yusuf al-Azdi
Strength
Shamis : 30,000 Ifriqiyans: 40,000	200,000
Casualties and losses
c.18,000 Shamis c.20,000 Ifriqiyans	Unknown

Kulthum ibn Iyad al-Qasi †
Balj ibn Bishr al-Qushayri
Thalaba ibn Salama al-Amili

Khalid ibn Hamid al-Zanati

Shamis : 30,000

c.18,000 Shamis

The Battle of Bagdoura (or Baqdura) was a decisive confrontation in the Berber Revolt in late 741 CE. It was a follow-up to the Battle of the Nobles the previous year, and resulted in a major Berber victory over the Arabs by the Sebou river (near modern Fes). The battle would permanently break the hold of the Umayyad Caliphate over the far western Maghreb (Morocco), and the resulting retreat of elite Syrian forces into Spain would have implications for the stability of al-Andalus.

The Berber revolt broke out in early 740 among in western Morocco, in response to the oppressive, unfair (and, by Islamic law, illegal) tax collection and slave-tribute policies imposed on Muslim Berbers by Ubayd Allah ibn al-Habhab, governor in Kairouan, Ifriqiya and over all the Maghreb and al-Andalus. The Berber rebellion was inspired by Kharijite activists of the Sufrite sect, who held out the promise of a puritan Islamic order, without ethnic or tribal discrimination, a prospect appealing to the mistreated Berbers.

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