Homosexuality is condemned and forbidden in holy law of Islam and rightly so, but there are times and places in Islamic history when the ban on homosexual love seems no stronger than the ban on adultery in, for example, in Renaissance Italy or seventeenth century France. Some[of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish poems are openly homosexual; some poets, in their collected poems, even have separate parts for love poems addressed to males and females. These figures are luckily not revered