| AI(U)ON | Annali dell’Istituto (Universitario) Orientale di Napoli |
| BEO | Bulletin d’Etudes Orientales |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| BT | Barresī-hā-ye tārīkhī, http://ansari.kateban.com |
| DBI | Dā’irat al-maʿārif-e Bozorg-e Islāmī (Tehran, in progress) |
| DJI | Dānesh-nāme-ye Jahān-e Islām (Tehran, in progress) |
| DMIK | Dā’irat al-Maʿārif al-Islāmiyya al-Kubrā (Tehran, in progress) |
| EI1 and EI2 | Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1st and 2d eds. (3d ed. in progress) |
| Enc. Ir. | Encyclopaedia Iranica |
| EPHE | Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne) |
| GAL | C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (Weimar, 1898) |
| GAS | F. Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (Leiden, 1967–1984) |
| IJMES | International Journal of Middle East Studies |
| IOS | Israel Oriental Studies |
| JA | Journal Asiatique |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JESHO | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |
| JSAI | Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |
| JSS | Journal of Semitic Studies |
| MIDEO | Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicain d’Etudes Orientales |
| MW | Muslim (formerly Moslem) World |
| REI | Revue des Etudes Islamiques |
| REMMM | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
| RSO | Rivista degli Studi Orientali |
| SI | Studia Islamica |
| WZKM | Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyrologie |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |