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Mar 25, 2011 · The Perfumed Garden/Introduction. Praise be given to God, who has placed man's greatest pleasure in the natural parts of woman, and has destined the natural parts of man to afford the greatest enjoyment to woman. He has not endowed the parts of woman with any pleasurable or satisfactory feeling until the same have been penetrated by the ...
It is written in Arabic. The Perfumed Garden is an example of erotic literature and contains sex among humans ( heterosexual and homosexual) and animals. The book was first translated into English by Richard Francis Burton in 1886. He translated it through a French translation.
reigning in Tunis, it may be presumed that this work was written in the beginning of the sixteenth century, about the year 925 of the Hegira. As regards the birthplace of the author, it may be taken for granted, considering that the Arabs habitually joined the name of their birth-place to their own, that
Jan 2, 2024 · It was written sometime in the 15th century (around 600 years ago), an Arabic-Islamic sex manual, written for readers of that time. Now THAT'S interesting. The translation itself is fairly old, translated into English more than 100 years back, and that itself is interesting.
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The first English translation of the Perfumed Garden to gain popularity in the West was made (from a French translation) by British explorer Sir Richard Burton. Published in 1886, it was subtitled, “A Manual of Arabian Erotology” and dated as 16th century. However, it may have been written earlier.
Jul 25, 2017 · The ancient ‘Arabic Kama Sutra’. Flower (Credit: Alamy) A 15th-Century collection of erotic stories called The Perfumed Garden challenges Western perceptions about sex and the Arab world ...
