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Abbreviations
| AKDN | Aga Khan Development Network |
 Alī
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Alī b. Abī  ālib
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| AN SSSR | Akademii Nauk Soyza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (the Academy of Science of USSR) |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| IIS | The Institute of Ismaili Studies |
| JBBRAC | Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Societys |
| JRAC | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| Mubārak | Mubārak-i Wakhānī |
Nā ir
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Nāir-i Khusraw
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| RAN | Rossiyskiy Akademii Nauk (the Russian Academy of Science) |
| RAS | Royal Asiatic Society |
| USSR | Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics |
| VMKB | Vilāyat-i Mukhtār-i Kuhistān-i Badakhshān (in Russian GBAO—the Autonomous Region of the Mountainous Badakhshan) |