{"product_id":"9781531268862","title":"Arabic Authors: A Manual of Arabian History and Literature","description":"Forster Fitzgerald   Arbuthnot (21 May 1833 – 25 May 1901) was a notabled British Orientalist and   translator.  He collaborated with his   close friend Sir Richard Burton in the translations of two Sanskrit erotic   texts, the Kama Sutra of Vatsayana (1883) and The Ananga Ranga (1885), both   privately printed by the Kama Shastra Society (a fictitious organisation   consisting of himself and Burton, a legal device to avoid obscenity laws). He   also wrote the books Arabic Authors, The Mysteries of Chronology, Early Ideas   (1881, under the pseudonym Anaryan) and Sex Mythology, Including an Account   of the Masculine Cross (1898, privately printed), which attempts to trace the   phallic origins of religious symbols. He edited the Rawżat aṣ-ṣafāʾ (روضة   الصفا, ‘garden of purity’) by Mīr-Khvānd, translated by the Orientalist   Edward Rehatsek from 1891 to 1894 (Pt I, Vol. I; Pt I, Vol. II; Pt II, Vol.   III; etc..).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Silver Scroll Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147396923632,"sku":"9781531268862","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781531268862_p0.jpg?v=1763740692","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781531268862","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}