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Literature from Islamic societies embraced homoerotic love until the 19th century. What happened?

By Morteza Hajizadeh, Hajizadeh, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Persian and other Islamic literature celebrated male homoerotic love as a form of divine longing – until Western moral codes entered the region.

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