Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society.

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. Theauthor...

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Main Author: Marmon, Shaun
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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