Islamic views on homosexuality' are influenced by the rulings prescribed by the Qur'an and the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammed. The mainstream interpretation of Qur'anic verses and hadith condemn sexual acts between members of the same sex. The traditional tolerance, literary and religious, for pederastic love affairs which according to Khaled El-Rouayheb had been prevalent since the 800's began to be eroded in the mid-1800s by the adoption of European Victorian attitudes by the new Westernized elite.