S’unir au Prophète. L’expérience matérielle, esthétique et dévotionnelle du Dalā’il al-Khayrāt au Maroc. Approches codicologique et anthropologique by Hiba Abid, Anouk Cohen

“…This is why the Dalā’il quickly became one of the most popular devotional books in the Sunni Muslim world, and particularly in Morocco. This success is not foreign to the exhortation of al-Jazūlī, to the recitation of prayers for the “Messenger of God”, which would be, according to him, the “road that leads to God”. …”
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Iranian Merchants as a Religious Community in Late Ottoman Istanbul by Abdülkadir Yeler

“…This community, formed mainly by merchants, was also a religious community belonging to the Shia sect, which enabled them to act together and form an organized community in Ottoman Istanbul, the population of which consisted mainly of Sunni Muslims. The combination of religious, cultural, social, and other practices of the Iranian merchants had brought an institutionalization along with it, and thus memories were created that would leave a legacy in the cultural history of Istanbul. …”
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