Qualla: Siege of Ta'if https://qualla.com/siege-of-ta-if en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Siege of Ta'if https://qualla.com/siege-of-ta-if Siege of Ta'if: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-ta-if/ Hot iron fell from the city walls onto the testudo below. The attackers, shields raised over their heads in a Roman formation passed down through centuries of war, broke ranks as the heated metal found the gaps. Ta'if had seen armies before. Perched at 1,879 meters in the cool Hijaz mountains, ringed by vineyards and orchards, protected by a wall thick enough to give the city its name, the stronghold of the Banu Thaqif was not going to fall to Muhammad the way Mecca had fallen a few months earlier. Not in January 630. Not in fifteen days of inconclusive fighting.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/8/siege-of-ta-if-wp/sgu8-siege-of-taif-after-hunayn.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Ta'if: Catapults and Manjaniq https://qualla.com/siege-of-ta-if/ Muhammad's army laid siege with every tool available. They cut down vineyards and orchards, trying to pressure the Thaqif economically. They deployed catapults and the manjaniq, a traction trebuchet used across the medieval Arab world. Later Muslim historians record that Muhammad...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/8/siege-of-ta-if-wp/sgu8-siege-of-taif-catapults-and-manjaniq.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Ta'if: The Quiet Withdrawal https://qualla.com/siege-of-ta-if/ Abu Sufyan ibn Harb lost an eye in the fighting. When he reported the loss to Muhammad, tradition records the Prophet offering him a choice between prayer for its restoration or its reward in paradise. Abu Sufyan chose paradise. After fifteen days of little progress, with soldier...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/8/siege-of-ta-if-wp/sgu8-siege-of-taif-the-quiet-withdrawal.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Ta'if: What Diplomacy Finished https://qualla.com/siege-of-ta-if/ Within a year, Ta'if accepted Islam. Not by siege, not by storm, but by negotiation. The Banu Thaqif sent a delegation to Mecca and asked to continue worshipping al-Lat for three years. Muhammad refused. Accounts preserve reports of a plot against his life that failed during the ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/8/siege-of-ta-if-wp/sgu8-siege-of-taif-what-diplomacy-finished.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Ta'if: A Wall's Long Memory https://qualla.com/siege-of-ta-if/ The name Ta'if means the circulated or encircled, after the wall the Thaqif had built in pre-Islamic times. That wall held against Muhammad's army in 630 and is the reason the city's conversion came through treaty rather than conquest. Today Ta'if is a mountain resort city of mor...

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