Literature
- Ibn Rustah, Encyclopaedia Iranica, C.E. Boswort, New York 2003.
- Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-A'lāk an-Nafīsa, ed. M. J. De Goeje, Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1892
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