Abbreviations
| AH | Anno Hegirae (Arab. sana hijriyya) |
| Arab. | Arabic |
| b. | ibn |
| BJMES | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| bt. | bint |
| BZ | Byzantinische Zeitschrift |
| EAL | Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature |
| EI2 | Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition |
| EI3 | Encyclopaedia of Islam. Three |
| EIr | Encyclopaedia Iranica |
| EQ | Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān |
| Gr. | Greek |
| GWU | Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht |
| Hebr. | Hebrew |
| IC | Islamic Culture |
| IJMES | International Journal of Middle East Studies |
| ILS | Islamic Law and Society |
| JA | Journal Asiatique |
| JAIS | Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies |
| JAL | Journal of Arabic Literature |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JESHO | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| JQR | The Jewish Quarterly Review |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (of Great Britain and Ireland) |
| JSAI | Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |
| JSS | Journal of Semitic Studies |
| Lat. | Latin |
| MW | The Muslim World |
| Pers. | Persian |
| REI | Revue des Études Islamique |
| SI | Studia Islamica |
| Syr. | Syriac |
| WDO | Die Welt des Orients |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |
| ZGAIW | Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften |