It has been qualified by Abdesmad Zaïed as "one of the most imposing" in the country.
[1] On the 10th of January 2020, the Tunisian government proposed the site for future classification as a UNESCO World Heritage.
[2] The ksar has an undetermined number of ghorfas due to the damaged state of the site.
Herbert Popp and Abdelfettah Kassah give an estimate of over 200 at its peak.
A restoration campaign has been launched by the National Heritage Institute in the 2000s.