1. Revenue Portal, Government of Kerala Revenue Department; Irikkur is a small village in Kannur District, Kerala.Both village and grama panjayath holds the same boundaries.It is a place of historic and commercial importance and is one of the largest Mappila Muslim majority towns in Kannur District. It lies on the banks of the Irikkur River. This river is the geographical border of Taliparamba and Thalassery Taluks.It also shares the border with Iritty Taluk.
2. Firka is a historical and administrative term for a revenue division or a group of villages.
3. Sirajudin, Muhammad. K, Arakkal Swaroopam: Matriliny, Trade and Politics (1723-1907), 2020, p.6.
4. Schoff, W.H, the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Longmans, London, 1912, p.204.
5. Casson, Lionel, the Periplus Maris Erythraei- Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentary, Princet on University Press, Princeton,1 989, p.298.
6. Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, The Political Economy of Cmmerce: Southern India, 1500-1650, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,1 990, pp. 13-4.
7. S. Husayn Nainar, Muhammad, Arab Geographers’ Knowledge of Southern India, University of Madras, Madras, 1942, p.35.
8. The Rehla Of Ibn Battuta (India, Maldive Islands and Ceylon), translated by Mahdi Husain, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1976, (Hereafter, Ibn Battuta) p.186.
9. Muhammad Sirajudin. K, p.4.
10. Sheikh Sayinuddin Makhdum’s, The Tuhfat -ul- Mujahidin, is a historical work on the struggle between the Mappila Muslims of Malabar and South Canara and Portuguese Colonial forces in the 16th century.
11. Genevive Buchon and Louis Shackley, Regent of the sea: Cannannur's Responds to Portuguese Expansion 1507-1548.
12. The New Indian Express, Malabar marks 500th anniversary of Valiya Hassan’s martyrdom.,& A grave or plaque also marks about Valiya Hassan in front of Kannur City Juma Masjid.
13. Das Gupta Ashin, India and the Indian Ocean World- Trade and Politics, Oxford University Press, Newyork, 2004.