El Mansour, Mohamed (2013). «Maghribis in the Mashriq». I Julia Clancy-Smith. North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World. Routledge. s. 98. ISBN978-1-135-31206-0. «The Mashriq always represented for the Maghribis a source of religious legitimacy. It was the land of divine revelation.»
El Mansour, Mohamed (2013). «Maghribis in the Mashriq». I Julia Clancy-Smith. North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World. Routledge. s. 84. ISBN978-1-135-31206-0. «[...] the respect Maghribis had for the religious authorities of the Arab East. In reality one of the basic motivations that drove Maghribi scholars eastward was their eagerness to meet these authorities and benefit from their knowledge.»
