| AIEOr. | Annales de l’Institut des Études Orientales |
| AIUON | Annali, Istituto Universitario Orientate di Napoli |
| AJSL | American Journal for Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| BZ | Byzantinische Zeitschrift |
| CMedH | Cambridge Mediaeval History |
| EI1 | Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1st edition |
| EI2 | Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition |
| GS | I.Goldziher, Gesammelte Schriften |
| IC | Islamic Culture |
| IJMES | International Journal of Middle East Studies |
| IOS | Israel Oriental Studies |
| IQ | Islamic Quarterly |
| Isl. | Der Islam |
| 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 |
| JSAI | Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |
| JSS | Journal of Semitic Studies |
| MW | Muslim World |
| PPHS | Proceedings of the Pakistan Historical Society |
| Rend. Linc. | Rend. Linc. Rendiconti dell Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche |
| RH | Revue Historique |
| RHR | Revue de l’Histoire des Religions |
| RO | Rocznik orientalistyczny |
| RSO | Rivista degli studi orientali |
| SI | Studia Islamica |
| WI | Die Welt des Islams |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft |