On Eunuchs: An Italian Medical Doctor’s View (Cairo, 1902)

Tolino, Serena (February 2023). On Eunuchs: An Italian Medical Doctor’s View (Cairo, 1902).

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In this blog-post I present and discuss a paper presented by an Italian medical doctor on eunuchs in Cairo in 1902 containing a denunciation of the practice of castration. The blog-post aims to highlight the importance of Islamic law beyond the boundaries of Muslim jurists’ discourse.

Item Type:

Other

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften

UniBE Contributor:

Tolino, Serena

Subjects:

200 Religion > 290 Other religions
900 History > 960 History of Africa

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Language:

English

Submitter:

Serena Tolino

Date Deposited:

06 Mar 2023 08:27

Last Modified:

06 Mar 2023 23:27

Additional Information:

Blog-post

Uncontrolled Keywords:

slavery, castration, medicine, Egyptian history, islamic law

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/179499

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