Shaun Elizabeth Marmon
Biographic Data
| ID | 10665494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Elizabeth Marmon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Marmon |
| SIGNATURE | MARMON S E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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 Medina for over six centuries and whose last represe…
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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 Medina for over six centuries and whose last represe…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cairo (1 work) · Cairo (egypt) (1 work) · Education and Islamic Studies (1 work) · Egypt (1 work) · Embodied cognition (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)