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Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society: Studies in Middle Eastern History

Autor Shaun Marmon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 ian 1996
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195071016
ISBN-10: 0195071018
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 226 x 148 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Studies in Middle Eastern History

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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The book deals with some important aspects of sexuality and religion. Its scholarship is impeccable; Shaun Marmon has made an exhaustive study of Arabic sources, including many unpublished manuscripts and has used European sources in a wide variety of languages. She has interpreted these documents with the keenest historical imagination and reconstructed most vividly the events and institutions of that period. To my knowledge, this is the first and only systematic study on this particular subject.