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- ↑ Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE : Furāt b. Furāt al-Kūfī, by Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali
- ↑ Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, edited by Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi, Andrew Rippin, p. 160
- ↑ Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imāmī-Shiism By Meʼir Mikhaʼel Bar-Ashe, pp. 29–31
- ↑ The Qurʾan and its interpreters. 1 By Mahmoud Ayoub, p. 38