1. Ahmad al-Budayri al-Hallaq, Hawadith Dimashq al-Yawmiyya ［Daily events of Damascus］ 1741—1762 (Cairo: Egyptian Association for Historical Studies, 1959), p.184; and George M. Haddad, “The Interests of an Eighteenth Century Chronicler of Damascus,” Der Islam 38 (June 1963): 258-271.
2. Budayri, Hawadith Dimashq, p.202.
3. Ibid., p.129.
4. Ibid., p.219.
5. Ibid., p.57.
6. Ibid., p.112.
7. 转引自Albert Hourani, “The Fertile Crescent in the Eighteenth Century,” A Vision of History (Beirut: Khayats, 1961), p.42。
8. Thomas Philipp and Moshe Perlmann, eds., ʻAbd al-Rahman al-Jabarti's History of Egypt, vol. 1 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1994), p.6.
9. 关于黎巴嫩山的谢哈卜家族，参见Kamal Salibi, The Modern History of Lebanon (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1965)。关于摩苏尔的加利利家族，参见Dina Rizk Khoury, State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540—1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)。
10. Roger Owen, The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800—1914 (London: Methuen, 1981), p.7.
11. Budayri, Hawadith Dimashq, pp.27-29.
12. Ibid., pp.42-45.
13. Amnon Cohen, Palestine in the Eighteenth Century (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1973), p.15.
14. Thomas Philipp, Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730—1831 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), p.36.
15. Philipp and Perlmann, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti's History of Egypt, vol. 1, p.636. 关于伟大的阿里贝伊，参见Daniel Crecelius, The Roots of Modern Egypt: A Study of the Regimes of ʻÀli Bey al-Kabir and Muhammad Bey Abu al-Dhahab, 1760—1775 (Minneapolis and Chicago: University of Minnesota Press, 1981)。
16. Philipp and Perlmann, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti's History of Egypt, vol. 1, p.639.
17. Ibid., p.638.
18. Ibid., p.639.
19. 这段叙述来自黎巴嫩山的埃米尔哈伊达尔·艾哈迈德·谢哈卜（1761—1835）的编年史《当世英华录》（Al-Ghurar al-Hisan fi akhbar abna' al-zaman）。谢哈卜的编年史由Asad Rustum 和Fuad al-Bustani校订出版，题为《谢哈卜埃米尔时代的黎巴嫩》（Lubnan fi ʻahd al-umara' al-Shihabiyin）， vol. 1 (Beirut: Editions St. Paul, 1984), p.79。
20. Shihab, Lubnan fi ʻahd al-umara' al-Shihabiyin, vol. 1, pp.86-87.
21. Philipp and Perlmann, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti's History of Egypt, vol. 1, p.639.
22. Philipp, citing Ahmad al-Shihab's Tarikh Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, in Acre, p.45.
23. 这段关于扎希尔·欧麦尔之死的戏剧性叙述出自米哈伊勒·萨巴厄（约1784—1816）的编年史《谢赫扎希尔·欧麦尔·齐达尼史》（Tarikh al-Shaykh Zahir al-ʻUmar al-Zaydani）(Harisa, Lebanon: Editions St. Paul, 1935), pp. 148-158。
24. 引自Alexei Vassiliev, The History of Saudi Arabia (London: Saqi, 2000), p. 98。
25. Philipp and Perlmann, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti's History of Egypt, vol. 4, p. 23.
26. Mikhayil Mishaqa, Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder: The History of Lebanon in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Albany: SUNY Press, 1988), p. 62.
