The Importance of the Sharia in Islamic Civilization

American Muslim historian Professor Jonathan A.C. Brown in a recent article asked how was homosexuality dealt with in pre-modern Islamic civilization? And he answered and I quote, the short answer is that it wasn't. Of course, Muslim jurists knew that homosexuality existed all around them and they disapproved unexpectedly. As Ibn al-Salam wrote, people only seem concerned about sins if they are socially rejected, not if they are objectionable to God. People were mortified by eating in public during Ramadan, he complained, but they saw no problem with ubiquitous sodomy. End of quote. Today a very small number of so-called liberal Muslims in the West are trying to argue that homosexuality is