(en) Shams El-Din, Osama, « A Military History of Modern Egypt from the Ottoman Conquest to the Ramadan War », School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, , p. 22-23 (lire en ligne [PDF]) d'après McGregor, Andrew James, A Military History of Modern Egypt: from the Ottoman Conquest to the Ramadan War, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 2006.
