«[...] Abdur Raheem Kidwai has tackled the subject afresh knowledgeably and deftly. Succinct and reader-friendly in style, the text maps the traditionally calumnious course of Muhammad-baiting, with rare respites, in the West across the ages successively, characterized by a long-lasting fanaticism even during the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Reason and Humanism.» (Masoodul Hasan, The Muslim World Book Review, 39:1/2018)
Preface - The Distorting Mirror: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in Medieval and Other Writings in the West - The Crescent in the West: Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in the Literary Works - Towards Fairness and Truth: Recent Trends in the Representation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) - Index.
Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Professor of English and Director of the UGC Human Resource Development Centre at Aligarh Muslim University, has a PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University and a PhD from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has been the Honorary Visiting Professor/Fellow at the Department of English, University of Leicester, and has delivered lectures on literary Orientalism at the universities of Oxford, Mauritius, Sunderland, and Leicester. Some of his books include Orientalism in Lord Byron's Turkish Tales, Stranger Than Fiction: Image of Islam/Muslims in English Fiction, and Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of Islam and Muslims.