Richmond, Walter „A Pawn in the Great Game“, The Circassian Genocide, Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, გვ. 50. ISBN9780813560694. „[...] Urquhart claims to have met fifteen tribal leaders and nearly two hundred village chiefs, designed the Circassian flag, and helped them draft a petition to London for assistance.“
Bashqawi, Adel „The Circassian Flag, the Homeland, the Circassian Identity“, Circassia: Born to Be Free. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN9781543447651. „In other narratives about the construction of the Circassian flag, the green flag contains twelve golden stars and three golden crossed arrows pointing upwards, which was originally created when a number of tribes agreed on a union in the 1830s and the flag was designed and drawn by the Scotsman David Urquhart during that same period.“
