From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: Marmon, Shaun | COPYRIGHT 1997 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Shaun Marmon. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 162. $42.00.)

The author of this small volume has produced a work that is sui generic. A mixture of history, religious studies, anthropology, and, less directly, gender studies, Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society offers a look at a unique institution--the society of eunuchs who served as the guardians of the Prophet Muhammad's tomb in Medina. In view of the notable absence of othe...