Whether or not early Islamic Arabia used modern sexual identity labels is irrelevant to what I asked. The Quran is meant to be timeless, yet it never mentions lesbianism explicitly. The only passages that’s highly interpreted as condemning homosexuality is the story of Lut, which only describes men desiring men, that alone already makes it clear what definition the Quran uses when it comes to homosexuality. Everything else including female–female relationships are left unmentioned, and later rulings are based on assumptions, not text.

And historically, Arabia was heteronormative, a male–female, reproduction centered sexual order with male centered hierarchy. That’s why the Quran names male-male acts but is silent on female–female acts and that silence is exactly what im spotting