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. The author''s central focus is on the sacred society of eunuchs who guarded the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad in M...