Hathaway, Jane: Tale of Two Factions, A: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen. Albany (New York): SUNY Press. 2002. 97. o. = SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East, ISBN 0791486109 Hozzáférés: 2018. június 21. „The Ismaili Shiʿite counter-caliphate founded by the Fatimids took white as its dynastic color, creating a visual contrast to the ʿAbbasid enemy [...] white became the Shiʿite color, in deliberate opposition to the black of the ʿAbbasid 'establishment'.”
