 Conversely, the Arabs adopted the name as a singular form, adding an "h" for the plural form in Arabic.Ibn Khaldun disagrees with Ibn Hazam, who claimed, mostly on the basis of Berber sources, that the Lwatah, in addition to the Sadrata and the Mzata, were from the "Qibt"s (Egyptians).According to Ibn Khaldun, this claim is incorrect because Ibn Hazam had not read the books of the Berber scholars.