Atawa (Tribute)

Atawa was a sum of money or goods that a king or a land paid to a ruler by way of a settlement, as the tribute (atawa) of Ratbil to al-Hajjaj was, on condition that he would not raid him, and then each year nine hundred thousand dirhams in goods. Ratbil said of the governors of the Umayyads that they did not spend a dirham unless they hoped that ten would come back to them in its place, and so he gave them nothing from it. ¹

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