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Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 by Khaled El-Rouayheb, Khaled Eland#8211 Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-226-72989-3 / 0226729893 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72989-3 / 9780226729893 Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic—visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timele |