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The Perfumed Garden, by Cadi al-Nafzawi
October 01, 20147.00 pm
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62)
7.00 pm
Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached
Iñaki Gutiérrez de Terán and Naomí Ramírez, the work’s translators, are participating in the presentation
The event will be presented by Eduardo López Busquets, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
A contemporary of Ibn Battuta originally from southern Tunisia, as his patronymic name reveals, Al-Nafzawi wrote “The Perfumed Garden” during the first third of the fifteenth century, at the request of vizier Al-Zawawi, who had heard of him due to a minor prior work: “Lovers’ Enlightenment on Secrets.”
With this book, Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo provides the visibility deserved by work written on the topic of sex in the Islamic world throughout history. With this literature subjected to the dictatorship of omission in recent times, the goal is not to idealize times past, or to assume an extreme liberalism in sexual matters in the Islamic cultural tradition. The idea is rather to highlight the evident disparity of focuses from one era to the next, and to emphasize that long ago, in the earliest times of Islam, deliberation over sexual practices was something common in literary texts and in Islamic jurisprudence.
Book presentation information sheet
A contemporary of Ibn Battuta originally from southern Tunisia, as his patronymic name reveals, Al-Nafzawi wrote “The Perfumed Garden” during the first third of the fifteenth century, at the request of vizier Al-Zawawi, who had heard of him due to a minor prior work: “Lovers’ Enlightenment on Secrets.”
With this book, Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo provides the visibility deserved by work written on the topic of sex in the Islamic world throughout history. With this literature subjected to the dictatorship of omission in recent times, the goal is not to idealize times past, or to assume an extreme liberalism in sexual matters in the Islamic cultural tradition. The idea is rather to highlight the evident disparity of focuses from one era to the next, and to emphasize that long ago, in the earliest times of Islam, deliberation over sexual practices was something common in literary texts and in Islamic jurisprudence.
Book presentation information sheet
