Talk:Banu Hilal

Economic ruin
By the way, there should be some way of making it more clear that "spread of nomadism in areas where agriculture had previously been dominant" meant long-term economic decline, and a miniature "collapse of civilization" in much of the region (outside the main coastal cities). In some ways, parts of northern Tunisia and north-eastern Algeria only recovered to the level of the 4th century A.D. in the 20th century, if even then... AnonMoos 18:12, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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Proposed merge of Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya into Banu Hilal
The newly created article is clearly a POV fork that is trying to portray the Hilalan migration as some sort of organized military expedition. M.Bitton (talk) 17:27, 23 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Disagree: There were conflicts such as the battle of Haydaran and the capture of Kairouan which means that it was clearly a military conflict. Hilal092 (talk) 17:02, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, there were battles involved, including those amongst themselves, which need to be put into context, but to describe the Hilalian migration (this is how RS describe it) as some sort of military conflict would be both WP:OR and misleading. This appears to be the main drive behind the POV fork that you created. M.Bitton (talk) 17:14, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Disagree seems like a pretty fair stand-alone article topic. Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  17:28, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Disagree: Instead of merging it with Banu Hilal article, i propose it should be merged with Taghribat Bani Hilal article. Ahendra (talk) 13:53, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Apart from your proposal being ❌, the literary work and the historic events it's based on are clearly distinct and must not be merged. --89.206.112.11 (talk) 21:57, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ The subjects are literally identical and the recently created article contains nothing that couldn't be added to the existing one. --89.206.112.11 (talk) 21:16, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Support as the current Banu Hilal covers similar scope in comparable detail to the Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya article, and hence the material is best consolidated in one place. Invasion also has the problem of WP:POV, but perhaps that valid point of view should be mentioned in the main article. Klbrain (talk) 10:12, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment I noticed that the article doesn't have sources about "Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya", which would be an issue from the WP:Notability perspective, as well as from the WP:OR (published sources that are directly related to the topic of the article). Searching "Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya" in Google produces only one passing mention in a reliable source. PaulT2022 (talk) 03:46, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Searching 'Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya' returns a couple of results in Google Books, 'Hilalian Invasion' returns several, as does 'Hilalian invaders' and 'Hilalian invasion of egypt.'  I think there are plenty of sources that use this terminology.  Some even call it the 'So-called invasion' lending weight to its common use (in my opinion) JeffUK (talk) 20:06, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * This article is about their "invasion of Ifriqiya". What's exactly in those sources that would warrant the creation of an article about a chapter of their journey? M.Bitton (talk) 02:22, 23 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Disagree the so-called 'Hilalian Invasion' includes more than just the Banu Hilal, sources mention the Banu Sulaym 'And other tribes' as being involved, as such this is not a valid target for redirection. The Oxford History of Islam has "[The fatiminds sent the] Hilal and Sulaym, who had proven troublesome in Egypt, to find new abodes in Ifriqiya. The long-term impact of the so-called Hilalian invasion has been hotly debated, " JeffUK (talk) 20:19, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It's called "Hilalian" because it's specific to the Banu Hilal, just like the famous poem about them. The Banu Sulaym and the other tribes didn't enter Ifriqiya until much later. M.Bitton (talk) 02:22, 23 December 2022 (UTC)