The principal sources for Angels Unveiled after the Koran are:
- The eight books of Authentic Traditions.
- al-Suyuti, al-Haba'ik fi akhbar al-mala'ik.
- Ibn Kathir, Qisas al-anbiya.
- al-Najjar, Qisas al-anbiya.
- al-Tha`labi, Qisas al-anbiya.
- al-Sufuri, Nuzhat al-majalis wa muntakhab al-nafa'is.
- al-Dayrini, Taharat al-qulub wal-khudu` li `allam al- ghuyub.
- al-Nabahani, Jami` Karamat al-awliya.
- al-Isfahani, Hilyat al-awliya.
- Ibn `Arabi, al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya.
- Ibn `Arabi, Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim.
- Ms. of Shaykh Sharafuddin al-Daghestani, 38th Grandshaykh of the Naqshbandi Golden Chain, Private collection.
- Ms. of Shaykh Abdullah al-Daghestani, 39th Grandshaykh of the Naqshbandi Golden Chain, Private collection.
- Nasir al-Din's saying in the chapter entitled "the Angels of Mercy and Wrath" is adapted from William Chittick's translation in Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth-Century Sufi Texts (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992) p. 78.
Koranic quotations have been slightly adapted from Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran: An Explanatory Translation.
Blessings and Peace on the Prophet, his Family, and his Companions.
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