Tasnif Style Guide

Tasnif Style Guide — Page 26

26 TAŞNIF STYLE GUIDE Main Text Overview After the above-mentioned Front Matter, the Main Text of the book begins. The main body text of any book begins on an odd recto page, and the subsequent text follows thereafter. Please note that the original book being translated into English may contain Arabic, Urdu, or Persian phrases such as the following: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ نَحْمَدُهُ وَنُصَلِّن عَلَى رَسُولِهِ الكَرِيمِ If such phrases-be they prefatory Islamic traditions or poetic verses are present in the original, the original foreign script may be preserved. They should be kept in the same location they appear in the original text. The translation of each line may be given as a footnote from the publisher. Such footnotes must be clearly stated as being from the [Publisher]. Introduction The Introduction is generally part of the Main Text of the book written by the author to introduce the book's content; however, in the absence of an Introduction, it may be presented as Front Matter written by someone other than the author as an exception.