Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society

by Shaun Marmon

In this thought-provoking interdisciplinary work, Shaun Marmon describes how eunuchs, as a category of people who embodied ambiguity, both defined and mediated critical thresholds of moral and physical space in the household, in the palace and in the tomb of pre-modern Islamic society. The author's central focus is on the sacred society of eunuchs who guarded the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina for over six centuries and whose last representatives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195071018
• ISBN13: 9780195071016
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"