“One of the greatest defeats of the enemies of Allah, in which their polytheistic kings and their auxiliaries, their defenders and their brave men died.” This was how the Muslim chronicler Ibn Abi Zar described the victory of the troops led by Yusuf Ibn Tasfin against the hosts of the Christian monarch Alfonso VI. The battle took place near Badajoz, in Sagrajas. It was the year 1086. More than nine centuries later, on March 2, 2017, the Arab name of that battle, Al-Zaleqa, was chosen to name the production company responsible for the communications of a new organization that emerged from the union of several jihadist groups operating in the Sahel region: JNIM, acronym for Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin.
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