A. Oriental Authorities.
Al-Balādhurī: (1) (Kitāb al-Ansāb) Anonyme Arabische Chronik, Band XI, ed. W. Ahlwardt, Greifswald, 1883.
—— (2) Kitāb Futūh al Buldān, ed. M. J. de Goeje, Leyden, 1865.
Ad-Dīnawarī: Kitāb al-Akhbār at-Tiwāl, ed. V. Guirgass, Leyden, 1888.
Fragmenta Historicorum Arabicorum, vol. I, from Kitāb al-ʿUyūn, ed. M. J. de Goeje and P. de Jong, Leyden, 1869.
Ibn al-Athīr: Taʿrīkh al-Kāmil, 12 vols., Cairo 1290 A.H.
Ibn Khalliqān, Biographical Dictionary, trans. by Baron MacGuckin de Slane, 4 vols., Paris, 1842-1871.
Ibn Khūrdādhbih: Kitāb al-Masālik wal-Mamālik, ed. M. J. de Goeje, (Bibl. Geog. Arab. VI), Leyden, 1889.
Ibn Qutayba: Kitāb al-Maʿārif, ed. F. Wüstenfeld, Göttingen, 1850.
Al-Istakhrī: Kitāb Masālik al-Mamālik, ed. M. J. de Goeje, (Bibl. Geog. Arab. I), Leyden, 1870.
An-Narshakhī: Description Topographique et Historique de Boukhara par Mohammed Nerchakhy, ed. C. Schefer, Paris, 1892.
At-Tabarī: (1) Annales quos scripsit Abū Jaʿfar ... at-Tabarī, ed. M. J. de Goeje et alii, 15 vols., Leyden, 1879-1901.
—— (2) Chronique de Tabari traduite sur la version persane de ... Belʿami par H. Zotenberg, 4 vols., Paris, 1867-1874.
Al-Yaʿqūbī: (1) Kitāb al-Buldān, ed. M. J. de Goeje, (Bibl. Geog. Arab. VII), Leyden, 1892.
—— (2) Ibn Wadhih qui dicitur Al-Jaʿkubi Historiae, ed. M. Th. Houtsma, 2 vols., Leyden, 1883.
Yāqūt: Geographisches Wörterbuch, ed. F. Wüstenfeld, 6 vols., Leipzig, 1866-1873.