Abbreviations
| AI | Annales islamologiques |
| BIE | Bulletin de l’Institut d’Egypte |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| EI2 | Encyclopaedia of Islam, second edition |
| EI3 | Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition |
| IJMES | International Journal of Middle East Studies |
| JA | Journal asiatique |
| JARCE | Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt |
| JESHO | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| JSAI | Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |