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Mobeen Vaid

Mobeen Vaid (M.A. Islamic studies, Hartford Seminary) is a Muslim public intellectual and writer. A regular contributor to muslimmatters.org, his writings center on how traditional Islamic norms and frames of thinking intersect the modern world. As of late, he has focused on Islamic sexual and gender norms. Vaid also speaks at confessional conferences, serves as an advisor to Muslim college students, and was campus minister for the Muslim community at George Mason University. He has reviewed The Study Qur’an for the Journal of Islamic Sciences and published “Can Islam Accommodate Homosexual Acts? Qur'anic Revisionism and the Case of Scott Kugle” for the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS).

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Can Islam Accommodate Homosexual Acts? Meditations on the Past Two Years

By Mobeen Vaid // July 11, 2018August 29, 2018

Introduction My initial rebuttal of Scott Kugle’s revisionism[1] on the question of homosexual relations in Islam was published in July 2016.[2] The central premise of the article – aside from delineating where Kugle’s revisionism fell…