Track | Chapter | Length |
01 | 00 - Translator's Note and Introduction | 15:56 |
02 | 01 - Chapter One | 31:40 |
03 | 02 - Chapter Two | 35:00 |
04 | 03 - Chapter Three Four and Five | 14:24 |
06 | 05 - Chapter Seven | 12:48 |
07 | 06 - Chapter Eight | 24:35 |
08 | 07 - Chapter Nine | 42:41 |
09 | 08 - Chapter Ten | 3:55 |
10 | 09 - Chapter Eleven | 31:39 |
11 | 10 - Chapter Twelve and Thirteen | 13:20 |
12 | 11 - Chapter Fourteen thru Seventeen | 11:22 |
13 | 12 - Chapter Eighteen and Nineteen | 4:36 |
14 | 13 - Chapter Twenty | 26:00 |
15 | 14 - Appendix | 19:34 |
Notes
Running Time: 5 hours 37 minutes
Read by: Alia Makki
Book Coordinator: Alia Makki
Meta Coordinators: Barry Eads
Proof Listener: Barry Eads
Artwork
Cover: Miniature painting showing a Persian princess holding a cup whilst being served by her attendant. This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom.
Inset: Richard Francis Burton by Rischgitz, 1864
Recordings
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The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book contains a discussion of qualities men and women should cultivate to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, and treats issues of sexual health, complete with remedies for sexual maladies. It lists the many names used for private parts and briefly describes the nature of sex among animals. Also included are a section on the interpretation of dreams and stories intended to give context and amusement. The reputation of the book in the Arab world was similar to that of the Arabian Nights.
The Perfumed Garden was introduced to the English speaking world in a 1886 translation from a French manuscript by Sir Richard Francis Burton, who compared the work to that of Aretin, Rabelais, and the French book Conjugal Love by Nicolas Venette. He makes the reader aware that the book is to a degree a compendium of works from other times and places in the Middle East and India. He also comments that what makes The Perfumed Garden unique in the genre is "the seriousness with which the most lascivious and obscene matters are presented."
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0683422134531 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0687700170723 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD case. CD security sleeve, download |
Author | Sheikh Nefzaoui (15th century) |
Translator | Richard Francis Burton |
Year | Written in 15th century CE English translation 1886 |
Recording | |
Read by | Alia Makki |
Length | 5 hours and 37 minutes |
The Perfumed Garden
- Author: Richard Francis Burton
- Product Code: DB-1137
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