1. Talib Saidbaev, Islam: istoriia i sovremennost’ (Moscow: Znanie, 1985) 64 pp. (p. 41).
2. On this subject, see: A. Bennigsen and S.E. Wimbush, Mystics and Commissars. Sufism in the Soviet Union (London: C. Hurst & Co., 1985) 195 pp.
3. Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay, ‘Sufi Brotherhoods in the USSR: A Historical Survey’, Central Asian Survey, vol. 2, no. 4 (December 1983) pp. 1–36
4. A. Bennigsen, ‘Sufism in the USSR: A Bibliography of Soviet Sources’, Central Asian Survey, vol. 2, no. 4 (December 1983) pp. 81–108.