1 2 O.Özgündenli, "Persian Manuscripts in Ottoman and Modern Turkish Libraries", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Edisi dalam talian, (LINK)
1 2 Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Seljuq", Edisi dalam talian, (LINK): "... Because the Turkish Seljuqs had no Islamic tradition or strong literary heritage of their own, they adopted the cultural language of their Persian instructors in Islam. Literary Persian thus spread to the whole of Iran, and the Arabic language disappeared in that country except in works of religious scholarship ..."
1 2 M. Ravandi, "The Seljuq court at Konya and the Persianisation of Anatolian Cities", in Mesogeios (Mediterranean Studies), vol. 25-6 (2005), m/s: 157-69
↑ The History of the Seljuq Turks: From the Jami Al-Tawarikh(Pautan)
↑ History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey - Stanford Shaw (Pautan)
↑ Wink, Andre, Al Hind the Making of the Indo Islamic World, Brill Academic Publishers, Jan 1, 1996, ISBN 90-04-09249-8 pg.9
↑ M.A. Amir-Moezzi, "Shahrbanu", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Edisi dalam talian, (Pautan): "... here one might bear in mind that non-Persian dynasties such as the Ghaznavids, Saljuqs and Ilkhanids were rapidly to adopt the Persian language and have their origins traced back to the ancient kings of Persia rather than to Turkish heroes or Muslim saints ..."
↑ F. Daftary, Sectarian and National Movements in Iran, Khorasan, and Trasoxania during Umayyad and Early Abbasid Times, dalam History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol 4, bahagian. 1; disunting oleh M.S. Asimov dan Clifford Edmund Bosworth; Terbitan UNESCO, Institut Pengajian Ismaili: "... Not only did the inhabitants of Khurasan not succumb to the language of the nomadic invaders, but they imposed their own tongue on them. The region could even assimilate the Turkic Ghaznavids and Seljuks (eleventh and twelfth centuries), the Timurids (fourteenth–fifteenth centuries), and the Qajars (nineteenth–twentieth centuries) ..."
↑ Wink, Andre, Al Hind the Making of the Indo Islamic World, Penerbit Brill Academic, 1 Jan 1996, ISBN 90-04-09249-8, m/s: 9
