Lootah family

Lootah is a famous merchant family in the City of Dubai and other parts of the United Arab Emirates. Many of its members hold senior positions in the city and the country and own a lot of its major companies. The Lootah family is from the Persian gulf. In fact, a prominent ailing member of the family, in a recent interview with a well know U.A.E newspaper discussed the origins of the family. His name is Abdulatif bin Ahmad bin Abdulla bin Mohammad bin Ali bin Rashid Al Hamiri. His grandfather is Mohammad Ali bin Rashid from the Al Bu Humair tribe of Liwa. Mohammad bin Ali bin Rashid travelled from Liwa to Dubai and settled in Deira. At the time, there were no dwellers in Diera, it was a mere site for camel grazing.

Several other families later on came to live there and among those was Obaid bin Lootah, who married one of Mohammad bin Ali bin Rashid's daughters and had a son whom he named Nasser. Over the years, several members of the two families intermarried and they both became to be known by the name Lootah. Therefore, there are two sects to this family: Nasser bin Obaid and Mohammad bin Ali. the origins of Obaid bin Lootah are from Abu Dhabi.Lootah is a pure arab people