On Eunuchs: An Italian Medical Doctor’s View (Cairo, 1902)
Introduction The subject of this month’s blog post is not a “typical” source for our project, as it is not properly legal. It is a paper presented by an Italian medical doctor on eunuchs in Cairo in 1902 containing a denunciation of the practice of castration. By featuring sources of this kind on the TraSIS project blog, we aim to highlight the importance of Islamic law beyond the boundaries of Muslim jurists’ discourse. But why would an Italian medical doctor…