For the Arabic construct phrase: ecnihatü'l-kerrübiyyin (BESİ Bezi), fâtihatü'l-kitâb (ASAN âd13), rabbü'l-erbâb
Meanwhile, the form 'ʿilm al-yaqīn (knowledge of certainty) - ʿayn al-yaqīn - ḥaqq al-yaqīn, which is widely used to denote types of knowledge in Sufism, has been retained due to its established usage; instead, the forms ʿilm al-yaqīn-ʿayn al-yaqīn-ḥaqq al-yaqīn have not been preferred.
In order to prevent possible confusion, and by limiting it to the minimum, some transcription marks have been used only in entry titles and work names. These marks are as follows:
They have been used when a hamza occurs in the middle or at the end of a word.
They have been used to indicate the ʿayn letter in Arabic.
They have been used for the letter 'a' that comes elongated after emphatic letters.
They have been used for the letter 'u' that comes elongated after emphatic letters.
The poems have been composed in accordance with the free verse form in Turkish, but with care taken to preserve the terminology.
e. It was also desired to provide the equivalents of the terms in Western languages in the Sufi Terminology Dictionary. However, the differences regarding the equivalents given to the terms in foreign languages show that there is not yet full consensus on this matter. It is also seen that the equivalents in Western languages given at the end of Mr. Acem's book are problematic. For this reason, the equivalents of the terms in foreign languages have not been provided.
INI. The following are the editorial decisions regarding the arrangement and ordering of the terms:
a. Term pairs that are well-known in Sufism have been combined. However, the other of the combined term pairs has also been left as a title, considering that the specialist reader may wish to see these entries as well, but it has been referred to the other term pair.
Preparation of the Work
Example: Dual terms such as qabḍ and basṭ have been gathered under qabḍ-basṭ, and for basṭ, reference has been made to this entry as well: