Contents: Preface. I. Language and Literture: 1. Through a Glass Darkly: Milton and Islam/Gordon Campbell. 2. ‘It Is This’: Agha Shahid Ali’s Representations of Kashmir/Claire Chambers. 3. Why do Translators Translate Premchand’s Kafan Again and Again?: A Study of Twelve English Translations of Premchand’s Kafan/Tota Ram Gautam.4. Indo-Persian Scholarship and the Formation of Orientalism/Gulfishan Khan. 5. Asian American Literature/John Charles Miller. 6. Oriental Servants in Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet/Sujan Mondal.7. Lady Montagu’s Orientalism/Farha Hiba Parvez. 8. Revisiting Leading Orientalists’ Works: Its Necessity, Procedure(s), and Effects/Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani.9. Unravelling Myth, Mystery and Metaphor in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan/Shehnoor Shan. 10. A Journey through the “Other” Realm/Sherin Shervani. 11. Victorian Orientalism: Travel Writers’ Gaze/Syed Faiz Zaidi. 12. Peer Observation: A Case Study of Pedagogical Performance of EFL/ESL Teachers/Soada Idris Khan. 13. Developing Conversation Skills at Undergraduate Level/Md. Amirullah Khan. 14. Assessment of Teachers’ Perception on Blackboard Learning: A Case Study/Taj Mohammad. 15. Using Literature in an EFL Classroom: A Review of the Integrated Approach/Mohd Nazim. II. Islam and the Quran: 16. Role of Shariah in the State Administration under the Mughals: A Brief Study/Zafarul Islam. 17. Women in Islam/Mohd Haris Bin Mansoor. 18. A Fundamental Aesthetic: Said Nursi’s Re-writing of the Qur’an into the Idiom of Modernity/Geoffrey Nash. 19. Professor A. R. Kidwai’s Contribution to the Qura’nic Studies An Assessment/Tauseef Ahmad Parray. III. Higher Education: 20. Academic Leadership in Higher Education: A Case Study of UGCASC/HRDC, AMU 1987-2017/Faiza Abbasi. 21. The Need of Androgogy: My CALEM Experiences/Sajid Jamal. 22. Importance of Education in Islam and the Educational Backwardness of Indian Muslims: Towards Understanding the Paradox/Abdulrahim P. Vijapur. 23. A Bibliography of Professor A. R. Kidwai’s Writings/Sujan Mondal. Eminent scholars from the USA, UK, Iran, Saudi Arabia and India have contributed 21 articles to this volume, covering the domains of language and literature, Islam and the Quran, Literary Orientalism, and the higher education scenario in India. These areas of studies have been of interest to Professor Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, whose 60th birthday this commemorative volume marks. This volume will be read with much profit by all those interested in cross-cultural studies, especially the relationship between the West and Islam, which is regrettably plagued by misperceptions, often culminating in distrust and hostility. Professor Kidwai’s writings have all along sought to bridge the unfortunate divide between the two major world faiths and cultures.