Re: Status of Eunuchs In Various Religion
Peace Das Reich,
I think it is no longer legal likewise slavery is illegal.
In 1715, an Ottoman edict sent to Egypt - source of most of the empire’s eunuchs - forbade the castration of yourng men, calling it inhumane, contrary to the Shari’a and the sultan’s orders. Thre is no clear shari’a argument forbidding ownership of enunchs, only their manufactures.
The prohibition of castration was universally maintained by Muslim legal thinkers, and the problem of eunuchs was handled in much the same fashion as the problem of illegal enslavement.