Author: Docker, John (Senior Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Aus
Paperback; 10 B&w Illustrations
256 pages
Published: February 2001
Continuum International Publishing Group
ISBN: 0826451322

Takes the premise of the 'lost world' of a shared Indian, Arab and Jewish culture which was destroyed in the early modern period by the expansion of Europe. Takes the premise of the 'lost world' of a shared Indian, Arab and Jewish culture which was destroyed in the early modern period by the expansion of Europe.This title takes as its premise the lost world of a shared Indian, Arab and Jewish culture which was destroyed in the early modern period by the expansion of Europe. Its discusses: literary texts, an examination of Genesis, Mediterranean cookery, Jewish mysticism and English Romanticism.