↑Peake, F. A History of Jordan and its Tribes, University of Miami Press, 1958, p.212
↑Alon, Y. and Eilon, J. The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State, Tauris, 2007, ISBN1-84511-138-9, p.34. Lawrence (in his report above) stated that the Howeitat were "altogether Bedu", but they had in fact only recently abandoned farming for nomadism.
↑Fischbach, M. State, Society, and Land in Jordan, BRILL, 2000, ISBN90-04-11912-4, p.48. Auda claimed that the troops were shot when they opened fire on him.