The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Desire (The Kegan Paul Arabia Library, Vol. 7) - Hardcover

Al-Nafzawi; Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Nafzawi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071030644X ISBN 13: 9780710306449

Publisher: Kegan Paul International, 1999

Synopsis

The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Desire has a tattered history. For over a century, it has been known in English through Sir Richard Burton's bizarre translation (from the French) which consistently elaborated and misrepresented the original. If ever a book needed demystifying, it is this one. Although remarkably lewd at times, it does not linger over details nor does it contrive to excite. It does not, therefore, qualify as pornography. In fact,

The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Desire is nothing more than a manual for the ordinary, married man of its author's time and place (Tunisia, in the early fifteenth century) -- but one that is not without some entertainment value. This translation is the first English version based upon an established Arabic text, and the first to be translated directly from the original Arabic.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Arabic

About this edition

• Publisher: Kegan Paul International
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 071030644X
• ISBN 13: 9780710306449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 82