The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Desire, for over a century, has been known in English through Sir Richard Burton's bizarre translation (from the French) which consistently misrepresented the original. This translation shows how it is nothing more than a manual for the ordinary, married man, but one that is not without some entertainment value.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In his khamriyyat, Abu Nuwas offers a glimpse of the hedonistic and dissipated world he inhabited: the world of Baghdad high society at the zenith of the Abbasid caliphate. Yet there is also a modern and up-to-date feel about his poetry that makes it ideal for presentation to an English-speaking readership, some twelve centuries after his death.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.