4 – Index of Sources and References

1 – Ithāf al-Sāda al-Muttaqīn bi-Sharh Ihyā Ulūm al-Dīn (A Gift to the Godfearing Masters: A Commentary on The Revival of the Religious Sciences), by Sayyid Muhammad Murtadā al-Zabīdī. Egyptian edition.

2 – Al-Ajwiba al-Fādila li-l-As’ila al-Ashara al-Kāmila (Excellent Answers to the Ten Complete Questions), by al-Laknawī. Aleppo edition.

3 – Al-Ihsān bi-Tartīb Sahīh Ibn Hibbān (Al-Ihsān: An Arrangement of Ibn Hibbān’s Sahīh), by Ibn Balbān al-Fārisī. Edited by Shuayb al-Arnaūt. Beirut: Muassasat al-Risāla.

4 – Al-Isāba fī Tamyīz al-Sahāba (The Accurate Identification of the Companions), by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalānī. Edited by Muhammad Alī al-Bajāwī.

5 – Al-Alām (Notable Figures), by al-Ziriklī. Beirut: Dār al-Ilm li-l-Malāyīn, fifth edition.

6 – Alām al-Nisā (Notable Women), by Umar Ridā Kahhāla. Damascus edition.

7 – Ayān al-Asr wa-Awān al-Nasr (Notable Figures of the Age and Supporters of Victory), by Ibn Aybak al-Safadī. Manuscript held at the Süleymaniye Library in Turkey.

8 – Inbā al-Ghumr bi-Anbā al-Umr (Informing the Uninitiated of the Events of the Age), by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalānī. Egyptian edition.

9 – Al-Ansāb (Genealogies), by al-Samānī. Beirut edition.

10 – Al-Bidāya wa-l-Nihāya (The Beginning and the End), by Ibn Kathīr. Beirut edition.

11 – Barnāmaj al-Wādī Āshī (The Scholarly Program of al-Wādī Āshī). Beirut: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī.

12 – Bughyat al-Wuāt fī Tabaqāt al-Lughawiyyīn wa-l-Nuhāt (The Aspiration of Seekers: Biographical Classes of Linguists and Grammarians), by al-Suyūtī. Edited by Muhammad Abū al-Fadl Ibrāhīm. Egyptian edition.

13 – Tārīkh al-Adab al-Arabī (History of Arabic Literature), by Brockelmann. Dār al-Maārif edition, Egypt.

14 – Tāj al-Tarājim (The Crown of Biographies), by Ibn Qutlūbughā. Baghdad edition.

15 – Tārīkh Baghdād (History of Baghdad), by al-Khatīb al-Baghdādī. Facsimile edition issued by Dār al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut.

16 – Tārīkh Dimashq (History of Damascus), by Ibn Asākir. Al-Zāhiriyya manuscript, reproduced by Dār al-Bashīr, Amman.

17 – Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (The Major History), by al-Bukhārī. Indian edition.