^Dib، Pierre (2001). Histoire des Maronites: L'église maronite du XVIe siècle à nos jours, Volume 3. Librairie Orientale. ISBN:978-9953-17-005-3.
^[The addition of the name Peter (in Arabic : Boutros ) your first name is customary for newly elected Maronite patriarchs; about Yaaqoub Awwad, some papal letters of 1721 indicate it as Petrus Iacobus patriarcha Antiochiae (cfr. Juris pontificii de propaganda fide , vol. II, p. 342, and Vol. VII, p. 97).]