description: One of Crowley's rarest part homo-erotic parody, and part mystical text. As described in Crowley scholar Martin P. Starr's Introduction to the 1991 facsimile edition, there were only 200 copies of the book printed, but many of these were destroyed in a customs seizure not long after publication, so that even before the beginning of the First World War Crowley was speaking of its rarity. A second customs seizure (1924) depleted the number of surviving copies yet further, and it is consequently one of Crowley's rarest works.
language: English
title: The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz
titlecomplete: The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz
genres: Poetry, Thelema
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Teitan Pr