لواتة

لواتة

Lawata, a covenant-holding Berber village in the land of Barqa; Amr ibn al-As (may God be pleased with him) wrote in their treaty 'upon you is to sell your sons and your women toward the jizya upon you' — whereupon al-Layth ibn Sa'd said 'were they slaves, that would not be lawful of them'; and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote concerning the Lawatiyyat that whoever holds a Lawatiyya must offer her in marriage to her father or return her to her people.