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Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society (1995) [STUDIES. IN MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY]

Name: Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society (1995) [STUDIES. IN MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY]
ISBN: 9781429406383

Shaun Marmon

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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 still perform many of their time honored rituals to this day. Through Marmon's account, the "sacred" eunuchs of Medina become historical guides into uncharted dimensions of Islamic ritual, political symbolism, social order, gender and time.

Κατηγορίες:

History - Islamic History

Έτος:

1995

Εκδότης:

oxford university press

Γλώσσα:

english

Σελίδες:

176

ISBN 10:

1429406380