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The Beshir Agha's memoir written by Hathaway, allows us to plunge into the facts and the concealed world of the eunuchs.Hathaway proceeds with his article by providing a brief introduction to Beshir's biography. Saying, he was emanated from the eastern part of Africa, Abyssinia. At first, when I began reading, I felt so frustrated and obnoxious due to the way castration was held and its attributed appalling treatment. But through continuing the reading, I perceived the momentum functionality of eunuchs in prospering and enhancing the economy in the Islamdom empires. Indeed, I'm not justifying the atrocity that had encountered those eunuchs, though.According to text, there is an account of two brothers whom originally emanated from Georgia,

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