The glory of the perfumed garden

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The glory of the perfumed garden

ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī

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ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad NafzāwīPublished 1978cover on file

The Perfumed Garden is a sex manual written in erotic prose. It gives advice on bodily appearance, sexual technique, and also on the symptoms and remedies for sexual diseases. Al-Nafzawi also describes the sex of animals and interprets dreams. The advice and technical descriptions are interspersed with stories which should give the manual context and amuse the reader.

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Publisher	Panther
Pages	333
Search language	english
ISBN_10	0-586-04222-9 primary
ISBN_13	978-0-586-04222-9 primary

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