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CELF
The Concise Encyclopaedia of Living Faiths, ed. Zaehner, R.C., New
York, 1959, repr. London, 1979.
DDD
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, eds. van der Toorn,
K., Becking, B., van der Horst, P.W., 1995, Leiden, Boston and
Cologne, repr. 1998.
DNP
Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike, eds. Cancik, H., and
Schneider, H., Stuttgart and Weimar, 1996–2003.
EHAS
Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, ed. Rashed, R., 3
vols., London and New York, 1996.
EI 1
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1st ed., 4 vols. and suppl., Leiden and
London, 1913–38.
EI²
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., 11 vols., Leiden, 1960–2005,
Extract from The Encyclopaedia of Islam CD-ROM v.-1.0.
EIr
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online. Available:
www.iranica.com. Accessed April 2009.
ERE
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, eds. Hastings, J., et al., 12 vols.,
Edinburgh and New York, 1908–21.
HdA
Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens, eds. Bächtold-
Stäubli, H., et al., 10 vols., Berlin and Leipzig, 1927–42, repr. 1987.
ISBE
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, eds. Orr, J., et al., 4
vols., Grand Rapids, MI, 1939, repr. 1994.
KTU
Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other
Places, eds. Dietrich, M., Loretz, O., and Sanmartín, J., 2nd
enlarged ed., Münster, 1995.
ODB
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. Kazhdan, A., 3 vols.,
Oxford, 1991.
RAC
Real exikon für Antike und Christentum, ed. Klauser, T., 13 vols.,
Stuttgart, 1941–78.
RE
Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft,
eds. Wissowa, G., et al., Stuttgart and Munich, 1893–1980.
RgA
Real exikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, 4 vols., eds. Hoops,
J., Berlin and New York, 1911–9, 2nd ed. Jankuhn, H., et al.,
1968–98.
Steingass
Steingass, F.J., A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary, 1892,
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WdM
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