al-Lawātī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Gaiser, Adam R.
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Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Nāṣir b. Miyāl (or Mayyāl) b. Yūsuf al-Lawātī (d. 528/1133-4) was a North African Ibāḍī historian, biographer, poet, and specialist in traditions (aḥādīth). He was born in the Barqa province (i.e., ancient Cyrenaica, present day eastern costal Libya) in the first half of the fifth/eleventh century, into the Berber tribe of the Lawāta. In 450/1058-9, at the age of 18, he settled in Ajlū in the oasis of Arīgh (modern day Oued Righ, Algeria), where he died