List of sources with English handwriting
- Āīīnavand, Ṣādīq (1387 Š.), ‘Elm-e Tārīḵ dar Gostara-ye Tamaddon-e Eslāmī, Tehran: Peĵūhišgāh-e ‘Olūm-e Ensānī va Moṭāli‘āt-e Farhangi. [In Persian]
- ‘Azīzī, Ḥossein (1391 Š.), Naqd va Barrasī-ye Manābi‘-e Tārīḵī-ye Fotūḥ dar Si Qrn-e Avval-e Hiĵrī bā Rūykard-e Fotūḥ-e Īrān, Qum: Peĵūhišgāh-e Ḥoza va Dānišgāh. [In Persian]
- Bilāḏorī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā (1417), Ansāb al-Ašrāf, Edited by Soheil Zakār & Rīāż Zirklī, Vols. 2, 5, 6, 10, Beirut: Dār al-Fikr.
- Bilāḏorī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā (1988), Fotūḥ al-Boldān, Beirut: Dār va Maktaba al-Hilāl.
- Bihaqī, Abubakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥossien (1405), Dalāil al-Nobovva va Ma‘rifat al-Aḥvāl Ṭāḥib al-Šarī‘a, Edited by ‘Abdulmo‘ṭi Qil‘aĵī, Vols. 2, 4, Beirut: Dār al-Kotob al-‘Elmīya.
- Ḏahbī, Šams al-Dīn Moḥammad b. Aḥmad (n.d.), Taḏkara al-Ḥifāẓ, Vol. 1, Beirut: Dār Eḥyā al-Torāṯ al-‘Arabī,
- Ḏahbī, Šams al-Dīn Moḥammad b. Aḥmad (1413), Tārīḵ- al-Eslām va Vafayāt al-Mašāhīr va al-A‘lām, Edited by ‘Omar ‘Abulslām Tadmorī, Vols. 3, 4, 7, Beirut: Dār al-Kitāb al-‘Arabī.
- Eṣfahānī, Abulfaraĵ ‘Alī b. Ḥossien (n. d.), Maqātal al-Ṯālibīn, Edited by Sayyed Aḥmad Ṣiqr, Beirut: Dār al-Ma‘rifa.
- Fāḵūrī, Ḥanā (n.d.), Tārīḵ-e Adabīāt-e Zabān-e ‘Arabī, Translated by ‘Abulḥai Ḥabībī, Tehran: Tūs. [In Persian]
- Gibb, Hamilton et al. (1361 Š.), Tārīḵnigārī dar Eslām, Translated by Yaqū Āžand, Tehran: Našr-e Gostara.
- Griffith, Sidney (Farvardīn 1387 Š.), “Tārīḵča-ye Moĵādilāt-e Rohānīūn-e Masīḥī-ye Soryānī bā Mosalmānān”, Translated by Sayyed Mahdī Esfidvāĵānī, Eṭilā‘āt-e Ḥikmat va Ma‘rifat, No. 25, pp. 66-75. [In Persian]
- Griffith, Sidney (Summer 1386 Š.), “Kitāb-e Moqaddas va Payām-e Moḥammad (PBUH) Bar Asās-e Difā‘īyahā-ye Masīḥī be Zabānhā-ye Ḡarbī va Soryānī dat Avvalīn Qrn-e Zimāmdādī-ye ‘Abbāsīān”, Translated by Vahīd Ṣafarī, Maĵala-ye Adyān va Maḏāhib-e ‘Erfān-e Haft Āsimān, No, 34, pp. 73-128. [In Persian]
- Ḥażratī, Ḥasan; Borūmand Alam, ‘Abbās (1391 Š.), Tārīḵšināsī va Tārīḵnigārī, Tehran: Peĵūhiškada-ye Tārīḵ-e Eslām. [In Persian]
- Ibn ‘Abdalbar, Abu ‘Omar Yūsif b. ‘Abdullāh b. Moḥammad (1412), Al-Estī‘āb fi Ma‘rifat al-Aṣḥāb, Edited by ‘Alī Moḥammad al-Biĵāvī. Vols. 1, 3, Beirut: Dār al-ĵīl.
- Ibn ‘Abdraba, Aḥmad b. Moḥammad (1404), Al-‘Eqd al-Farīd, Edited by Mofīd Moḥammad Qimīḥa, Vol. 1, Beirut: Dār al-Kotob al-‘Elmīya.
- Ibn Faqīh, Aḥmad b. Moḥammad (1416), Al-Boldān, Edited by Yūsif Al-Hādī, Beirut: ‘Ālim al-Kitāb.
- Ibn ĵozī, Abulfaraĵ ‘Abdulrahmān b. ‘Alī b. Moḥamad (1412), Al-Montiẓam fi Tārīḵ-e al-Omam va al-Molūḵ, Edited by ‘Abdulqādir ‘Aṭā & Moṣṭafā ‘Abdulqādir ‘Aṭā, Vol. 7, Beirut: Dār al-Kotob al-‘Elmīya.
- Ibn Kaṯīr, Abulfidā Esmāīl b. ‘Omar (1407), Al-Bidāya va al-Nihāya, Vol. 9, Beirut: Dār al-Fikr.
- Ibn Qotaiba, Abū Moḥammad ‘Abdullāh b. Moslim (1992), Al-Ma‘ārif, Edited by Ṯirvat ‘Akāša, Cairo: Al-Haiat al-Miṣrīya al-‘Ālama lil-Kitāb.
- Ibn Sa‘d, Moḥammad (1414), Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kobrā (al-Ṭabaqi al-ḵāmisa), Edited by Moḥammad b. Ṣāmil al-Salmī, Vol. 6, Ṭāif: Maktabat al-Ṣiddīq.
- Ibn Sa‘d, Moḥammad (1410), Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kobrā, Edited by Moḥammad ‘Abdulqādir ‘Aṭā, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, Beirut: Dār al-Kotob al-‘Elmīya.
- Ibn Ṭaqṭaqī, Moḥammad b. ‘Alī b. Ṭabāṭabā (1418), Al-Faḵrī fi al-Ādāb al-Solṭānīya va al-Doval al-Eslaāmīya, Edited by ‘Abdulqādīr Moḥammad Māyo, Beirut: Dār al-Qalam al-‘Arabī.
- Ĵafarīān, Rasūl (1393 Š.), Manābi‘-e Tārīḵ-e Eslām, Terhan: Našr-e ‘Elm. [In Persian]
- ḵaṭīb Baḡdādī, Aḥmad b. ‘Alī (1417), Tārīḵ-e Baḡdād, Edited by Moṣṭafā ‘Abdulqādir ‘Aṭā, Vol. 25, Beirut: Dār al-Kotob al-‘Elmīya.
- Naṣr b. Mozāḥim Minqarī (1382), Vaqa‘at Ṣifīn, Edited by ‘Abulsalām Moḥammad Hārūn, Cairo: Al-Moasisa al-‘Arabīya al-Ḥadīṯa.
- Maqdasī, Moṭahar b. Ṭāhir (n. d.), Al-Bad‘a va Al-Tārīḵ, Vol. 5, Port Said: Maktabat al-Ṭiqāfa al-Dīnīya.
- Mas‘ūdī, Abul Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Ḥossein b. ‘Alī (1409), Morūĵ al-ẓahab va Ma‘ādin al-ĵavāhir, Edited by As‘ad Dāḡir, Vol. 3, Qum: Dār al-Hiĵra.
- Mizzī, Abuḥiĵāĵ ĵamāl al-Dīn Yūsif (1413), Tahḏīb al-Kamāl, Edited by Bišār ‘Avād, Vol. 14, Beirut: Moasisa al-Risāla.
- Saĵĵādī, Sayyed Ṣādiq; ‘Ālimzāda, Hādī (1380 Š.), Tārīḵnigārī dar Eslām, Terhan: Samt. [In Persian]
- Sam‘ānī, Abu Sa‘īd ‘Abdulkarīm b. Manṣūr al-Tamīmī (1382), Al-Ansāb, Edited by ‘Abulraḥmān b. Yaḥyā al-Mo‘alimī al-Yamānī, Vol. 8, Heyderabad: Maĵlis Dāirat al-Ma‘ārif al-‘Oṯmānīya.
- Sāsānī, Farhād (1389 Š.), Ma‘nākāvī, Tehran: ‘Elm.
- Šafī‘ī, Sa‘īd (1398 Š.), “Ša‘bī”, Dānišna-ye ĵāhān-e Eslā, Vol. 27. Tehran: Bonyāde Dāirat al-Ma‘ārif-e Eslāmī. [In Persian]
- Ṯabarī, Abu ĵafar Moḥammad b. ĵarīr (1387), Tārīḵ al-Oman va al-Molūk, Edited by Moḥammad Abulfażl Ebrāhīm, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Beirut: D al-Torāṯ.
- Ṭarīḥī, Moḥammad Sa‘īd (Bahman & Esfand 1373 Š.), “Maḵāzin-e Qadīmī-ye Kitābhā-ye Eslāmī dar Kūfa”, Translated by Sayyed Ḥossien Eslāmī, Āīīna Peĵūhiš, No. 29, 30, pp. 28-40. [In Persian]
- Ṯaqafī Kūfī (1353 Š.), Al-Ḡārāt, Edited by ĵalāl al-Dīn Ḥosseinī Ermavī, Vol. 1, Tehran: Anĵoman-e Āṯar-e Millī. [In Persian]
English Books
- Crone, Patricia (2005), Medieval Islamic Political Thought, Edinburgh University Press.
- Robinson, Chase. F. (2008), Islamic Historiography (Themes in Islamic History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Sezgin, Fuat (1967) Geschichted des Arabischen Schrifttums, Leiden: Brill.