Notes On Translation

1. Any word, phrase or sentence put between brackets [ ] is an addition from the translator to the original text for the purpose of more clarification.

2. Any word, phrase, sentence or paragraph between asterisks * * is of the author’s additions to the original book due to its great importance.

3. The Sahr’i and Arabic idioms -which have no English equivalents- have been written in transliteration.

4. The translator has tailed the book with a glossary of these Sahr’i and Arabic terms ordered alphabetically.