Ibid., p. 76

The Perfumed Garden, p. 75

Rene Khawam gives the fifteenth century as the date for the original composition of The Perfumed Garden. Burton believed that it was written in the beginning of the sixteenth century, about the year 925 of the Hegira, but Alan Hull Walton says that recent investigations indicate that it was probablv written between the vears 1394 and 1433

The title in Arabic is Ruju' al-shaykh ila sahah fil-quwwa ala al-bah (publisher's name not specified). Selections from this book have been translated and published in French in the following edition: Le livre de la volupte pour que le vieillard recouvre sa jeunesse (Paris: Editions Sycomore, 1979). An English translation in two volumes, entitled The Old Man Young Again, was published by Charles Carrington in Paris in 1898. The edition was limited to 500 sets and is virtually unobtainable now.

The title in Arabic is Al-Raud al-'atir wa nuzhat al-khatir (publisher's name not specified). The English translation used here is the famous translation by Sir Richard Burton (originally published in 1876) in the following edition: The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi, translated by Sir Richard Burton and edited with an introduction and additional notes by Alan Hull Walton (London: Neville Spearman, 1963).

See Salah al-Munajid, Al-Hayat al-jinsiya 'ind al-Arab (Sexual Life Among the Arabs); and Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, La sexualite en islam, Chapter XI, »Erotologie.«

G. Balandier, Anthropologiques (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1974), Chapter 1, »Hommcs et femmcs ou la moitie dangereuse,« pp. 13-61

See: Fatima Mernissi, Beyond the Veil (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1975), Chapter 9, »The Economic Basis of Sexual Anomie in Modern Morocco,« pp. 89-97

See Fatima Mernissi, »Women and the Impact of Capitalist Development in Morocco.«

A conspiracy of silence surrounds prostitution as an aspect of economic depen- dence, at the international as much as at the local level. A recent documentation of prostitution and its international ramifications is that of Kathleen Barry, who made particular use of INTERPOL documents. See Kathleen Barry, Female Sexual Slavery (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1979), Chapter 4, »The Traffic in Sexual Slaves,« pp. 45-72