Rāhnamā-yi vīrāyish va nigārish

Rāhnamā-yi Vīrāyish va Nigārish is a practical manual for Persian writing and editorial practice, addressing the lack of a unified style guide in Iranian scholarly publishing. The work covers five areas: punctuation conventions (sojāvandī), Persian orthographic standards, correct use of numerals, abbreviations and measurement tables, and the principles of citation, bibliography, and footnoting. Each section offers rule-based guidance with examples from classical and contemporary Persian prose and verse. The manual also addresses passive voice, verb agreement, lexical economy, and syntactic clarity, and includes before-and-after specimen texts to demonstrate editorial correction. Reference tables on abbreviations, measurement units, editorial symbols, and calendrical conversion add practical utility. Aimed at authors, translators, and copy-editors working with scholarly texts, it equally serves as an accessible guide to standard written Persian.