Wolfgang Felix, Wilferd Madelung: Deylamites. In: Encyclopaedia Iranica, VII/4.S. 342–347, abgerufen am 28. November 2016.The most successful actors in the Deylamite expansion were the Buyids. The ancestor of the house, Abū Šojāʿ Būya, was a fisherman from Līāhej, the later region of Lāhījān.
