this book brings to life Victorian Britain''s conceptions and misconceptions of the Muslim world using a thorough investigation of varied cultural sources of the period. She discovers the prevailing representation of Muslims and Islam in the two major spheres of British influence - India and the Ottoman empire - was reinforced by reoccurring themes: through literature and entertainment the public saw the Mahomedan As the noble savage a perception reinforced through travel writing and fiction of the exotic East And the Arabian Nights. .