Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of lslam and Muslimsis a study on Literary Orientalism that inspects and discusses the image of Muslims and lslam in English Literature through history. It identifies and examines the imperialistic as well as the positive pluralistic perspectives of lslam by the Western world. In his several articles and notes, Abdur Raheem Kidwai has studied perspectives from the age of Southey and Byron to the contemporary writings of Balwant Gargi and Qaisra Shahraz. Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of Islam and Muslimsis a collection of articles, notes and book reviews on Literary Orientalism - a new, emerging subfield of English studies. Literary Orientalism, covering the tropes of Imagology, representation and cross-cultural encounter, stands for the depiction of Islam and Muslims in English literary texts down the ages. Among the practitioners of Literary Orientalism are such outstanding men of letters as Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, Beckford, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Moore, Scott, Browning, Arnold, Tennyson, Carlyle, Kipling, Forster, Conrad, Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, and Lessing. This Volume analyzes various facets of Literary Orientalism, including book reviews on the latest publications in the field. Contents: Dedication