Homosexual acts were legally forbidden in traditional Islamic jurisprudence and subject to punishment, including flogging, stoning, and the death penalty, depending on the situation and legal school. There is little evidence of homosexual practice in Islamic societies for the first century and a half of the early history of Islam (7th century CE), although male homosexual relationships were known and discriminated, but not sanctioned, in Arabia. At the same time, "both the Quran and the hadith strongly condemn homosexual activity" with some hadith prescribing the death penalty for those engaged in male homosexual or lesbian intercourse publicly. The Quran narrates the story of the "people of Lot" destroyed by the wrath of God because the men engaged in lustful carnal acts between themselves, but modern Western historians have concluded that the Islamic prophet Muhammad never forbade homosexual relationships outright, although he disapproved of them in line with his contemporaries. Attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) people and their experiences in the Muslim world have been influenced by its religious, legal, social, political, and cultural history.
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