theBattle of Manu was a major battle that was fought in early May 896 near the fort of Manu (Ad Ammonem site, modern Mellita 24 km west ofSabratha,Libya) between the forces of theAghlabidEmirIbrahim II and the forces of theNafusa tribe.^{[1][3][2][4][5][6]}

After the battle, the Aghlabids attackedQantrara, a city and aRustamid locality located in the vicinity ofNefta and later attackedNafzawa.^[1][3] In August–September 897, Ibrahim's sonAbu l-'Abbas returned and attacked the Nafusa.^[1][3] Its in these campaign where around 300 or 500 inhabitants including 80 scholars were imprisoned and brought back toIfriqiya where they were massacred and gruesomely executed by Ibrahim.^[1][3]

The disaster at Manu marked the end of Rustamid rule overJebal Nafusa^[2] as the Nafusa deposed their Rustamid governor Aflah ibn al-Abbas and replaced him by his cousin who himself was later replaced by Aflah. In the years following the defeat at Manu, Abdallah ibn al-hayr became the Hakim of Jebel Nafusa.^[1][7]