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Abbreviations
| CHAL-Abbasids | Julia Ashtiany et al. (eds.), Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. ʿAbbasid Belles Lettres. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990 |
| CHAL-Umayyads | A.F.L. Beeston et al. (eds.), Cambridge History of Arabic Literature. Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983 |
| EI2 | The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition. Ed. C.E. Bosworth et al. i–xi. Leiden: Brill 1960–2007 |
| EI-Three | The Encyclopaedia of Islam – Three. Ed. Kate Fleet et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2007ff.) |
| EIr | Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online at http://www.iranicaonline.org |
Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Literatur. i–ii + Supplementbände i–iii. Leiden: Brill 1936–1944 |
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Fuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. i–ix. Leiden: Brill 1967–1984 |
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Journal of the American Oriental Society |
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |
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Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam |
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Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes |
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Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |
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