[ARABIC BAHNAMA - THE BOOK OF SEX - CAIRO IMPRINT] Kitab ruju' al-shaikh ila sabah fi al-quwwâti 'ala al-bah. [i.e. The return on the old man to youth through the power of sex].

SEMSEDDIN AHMAD B. SULEYMAN IBN-I KEMÂL [KAMALPASHAZÂDE], (1469-1534).

N. p., Cairo - Egypt, [AH 1322] = 1904.

Original marbled half cloth bdg. Rebacked spine. Heavily dried on extremities of pages, very sensitive, and some tears on trunks to spine. Chipped extremities. Minor foxing on pages. Text is clean and good. Endpapers from c. 1930s. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Arabic. 128 p. Early Arabic Cairo edition (according to the OCLC, the only edition with "128 pages" is printed in Cairo, see 1235562960) of this rare Bahnâma [i.e. The book of sex]. One of the most famous bahname in Ottoman times was titled Ruju' al-Shaykh ila Sibah fi al-Quwwah 'ala al-Bah [i.e. The return on the old man to youth through the power of sex] originally based on an Arabic text from the thirteenth century, with a Persian translation as an intermediary. This is also an Arabic edition on sexuality attributed to Sams Al-Din Ahmad b. Suleiman ibn-i Kamal, better known by his pen name Ibn Kemal or Kemalpasazâde [i.e. son of Kemal Pasha] (1469-1534), was an Ottoman historian, Sheikh ul-Islam, jurist, and poet. According to some sources, this 'bahnama' was written under the patronage of Sultan Selim I (the Steadfast) in 1519 in the 16th century. This edition is divided into two parts, each with thirty 'bâb's [i.e. chapters]. The first thirty chapters are devoted to men's secrets and what empowers them in their sexual lives in terms of nutrition and medicines. The next thirty chapters are devoted to the secrets of women, how to please them, and what medicine to use to increase pleasure. It's one of the early editions printed in Cairo, Egypt during the Egyptian Khedivate era of Abbas Hilmi Pasha (Abbas II of Egypt), (1892-1914). Rare. OCLC 1235562960.