Qualla: Battle of the Trench https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trench en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/u/k/5/battle-of-the-trench-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of the Trench https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trench Battle of the Trench: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trench/ Photo credit Md iet, CC BY-SA 3.0. An army of perhaps ten thousand men was marching on Medina, and the city's defenders numbered a third of that. The Quraysh of Mecca had spent years trying to crush the young Muslim community; now they had gathered allied tribes from across Arabia for a final blow. Then a man named Salman, a Persian convert who had seen siege warfare in his homeland, offered an idea the Arabs had never used in battle: dig a trench. In the winter of 627 the people of Medina took up shovels, and the ditch they cut into the earth would decide the campaign without the great clash everyone expected.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/u/k/5/battle-of-the-trench-wp/suk5-battle-of-the-trench-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of the Trench: A City Under Threat https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trench/ Photo credit Adiput (talk), Public domain. The roots of the confrontation ran back through two earlier battles, Badr in 624 and Uhud in 625, in the long conflict between Muhammad's followers and the Meccan Quraysh. By 627 the Quraysh, primarily merchants rather than soldiers, knew they could not finish the war alone. They...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/u/k/5/battle-of-the-trench-wp/suk5-battle-of-the-trench-a-city-under-threat.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of the Trench: The Trench https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trench/ Photo credit EV HRPWD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Medina sat ringed on most sides by rocky ground and dense palm groves, terrain that cavalry could not easily cross. Only the northern approach lay open. On Salman's advice, Muhammad set the whole community to digging a trench across that vulnerable flank, and the reports describe...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/u/k/5/battle-of-the-trench-wp/suk5-battle-of-the-trench-the-trench.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of the Trench: A Siege That Unraveled https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trench/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. What followed was less a battle than a test of nerve. For about three weeks the armies faced each other across the ditch while skirmishers traded arrows and the occasional rider tried to find a crossing. Inside the city the strain mounted: food ran short, the nights grew bitterly...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/u/k/5/battle-of-the-trench-wp/suk5-battle-of-the-trench-a-siege-that-unraveled.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of the Trench: What the Trench Decided https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-trench/ Photo credit EV HRPWD, CC BY-SA 4.0. The siege's failure marked a turning point. The Quraysh had thrown their largest coalition against Medina and achieved nothing, and the effort cost them prestige and their trade routes toward Syria. The balance of power in the Hijaz began to shift toward the Muslim community. The...

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