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Note on Transliteration, Dates and Abbreviations
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Published:June 1998
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The system of transliteration used in this book for the Arabic and Persian scripts is that of the new edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam, with a few modifications, namely ch for č, j for dj, and q for ḳ, ligatures are also dispensed with. Diacritical marks are dispensed with for some of the dynastic and community names which occur frequently in the book and are treated as common English words in The Concise Oxford Dictionary. The most important of these are Abbasid for ῾Abbāsid, Fatimid for Fatimid, Ismaili for Ismā῾īlī Sufi for Ṣūfī, Sunni for Sunnī, Saljuq for Saljūq, and Safawid for Ṣafawid,
The lunar years of the Islamic calendar are generally followed by the corresponding Gregorian solar years (for example, 11/632). The Islamic solar dates of the sources published in modern Iran are followed by the corresponding Christian years starting on 2 I March.
The following abbreviations are used for certain periodicals and encyclopaedias cited frequently in the chapter Notes and Select Bibliography.
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