The History of the Seljuq Turks: From the Jami Al-Tawarikh(Pautan)
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey - Stanford Shaw (Pautan)
britannica.com
britannica.com
Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Seljuq", Edisi dalam talian, (LINK): "... Because the Turkish Seljuqs had no Islamic tradition or strong literary heritage of their own, they adopted the cultural language of their Persian instructors in Islam. Literary Persian thus spread to the whole of Iran, and the Arabic language disappeared in that country except in works of religious scholarship ..."
O.Özgündenli, "Persian Manuscripts in Ottoman and Modern Turkish Libraries", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Edisi dalam talian, (LINK)
M.A. Amir-Moezzi, "Shahrbanu", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Edisi dalam talian, (Pautan): "... here one might bear in mind that non-Persian dynasties such as the Ghaznavids, Saljuqs and Ilkhanids were rapidly to adopt the Persian language and have their origins traced back to the ancient kings of Persia rather than to Turkish heroes or Muslim saints ..."
