(EN) Willem Floor e Edmund Herzig, Iran and the World in the Safavid Age, Bloomsbury Academic, 30 gennaio 2015, p. 20, ISBN 978-1-78076-990-5. URL consultato il 20 gennaio 2023.
«In fact, at the start of the Safavid period Twelver Shi'ism was imported into Iran largely from Syria and Mount Lebanon (...)»