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- ↑ "mâni (II)", in Modern Turkish Dictionary
- ↑ Volume 5 of E. J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam : 1913 - 1936 / ed. by M. Th. Houtsma, M. Th Houtsma, ISBN 90-04-09796-1, p. 245
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