↑ Based on Britannica 2008: The state was governed by imams descended from ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Rustam, the austere Persian who founded the state in the 8th century.
↑ Concise History of Islam - Muzaffar Husain Syed, Syed Saud Akhtar, B D Usmani "The exact extent of its dominions is not entirely clear, but it stretched as far east as Jabal Nafusa in Libya"
Wheatley, Paul, "The Places where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh Through the Tenth Centuries", Published by University of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN 0-226-89428-2.
