Given this, what caused homosexuality to become so offensive to the Muslim world?
It’s important to note that pre-modern Arab society was not tolerant of “homosexuals.” That’s because the concept “homosexual” appeared in Europe only in the second half of the 19th century, and until the early 20th century there was no such concept, or anything similar, in Arabic-Islamic culture.Īttraction to boys did not usually prevent men from marrying women and sleeping with them.
