Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Nahrawālī et Richard Blackburn, Journey to the Sublime Porte: the Arabic memoir of a Sharifian agent's diplomatic mission to the Ottoman Imperial Court in the era of Suleyman the Magnificent; the relevant text from Quṭb al-Dīn al-Nahrawālī's al-Fawāʼid al-sanīyah fī al-riḥlah al-Madanīyah wa al-Rūmīyah, Orient-Institut, (ISBN978-3-89913-441-4, lire en ligne), p. 93
Robert Boulanger, The Middle East: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Hachette, (lire en ligne), p. 376