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The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight
Author(s): Sheikh Muhammad Nafzawi (Author), Richard Burton (Translator)
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date: March 15, 2014
- Language: English
- Print length: 266 pages
- ISBN-10: 149736230X
- ISBN-13: 9781497362307
Book Description
Known as the Arabic Kama Sutra, The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. Written by Sheikh Muhammad Nafzawi sometime during the twelfth century, the book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual techniques, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It has a section on the interpretation of dreams, with a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement.
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About the Author
Sheikh Muhammad Nafzawi was born during the twelfth century among the Berber Nefzawa tribe in the south of present-day Tunisia. He compiled at the request of the ruler of Tunis, Abu Faris Abd al aziz al Mutawakkil, The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight. The reputation acquired by this work in the Arab world was similar to that of the Kama Sutra.
