| AI | Annales Islamologiques |
| BEO | Bulletin des Etudes Orientales |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| CHALABL | The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: ‘Abbasid Belles-Lettres |
| CHALAND | The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus |
| CHALMAL | The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Modern Arabic Literature |
| CHALRLS | The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Religion, Learning and Science in the ‘Abbasid Period |
| CHALUP | The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period |
| EI | The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1st edn |
| EI2 | The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edn |
| GAL | C. Brockelmann Geschichte der arabischen Literatur, and Suppls. I–III |
| IC | Islamic Culture |
| JA | Journal Asiatique |
| JAL | Journal of Arabic Literature |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| JSS | Journal of Semitic Studies |
| QSA | Quaderni di Studi Arabi |
| WZKM | Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift für Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft |