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The book provides the reader with a translation and analysis of a wide range of rabbinic sources relating to major concepts which influenced the development of Jewish and Christian ideology.

The book gives a special voice to the literay works of al-Tayyib Salih, the Arab writer who has spent most of his life in Britain but still prefers to write in Arabic.

This study and edition of nineteenth-century Arabic plays reveals the considerable contribution of the Jewish community to the early development of modern Arabic drama. The plays link The Arabian Nights and Jewish Purim-shpil with the comedies of Moliere and the enlightenment drama of Gotthold Lessing.

The book forms an important contribution to our knowledge of medieval science and particularly medicine. It provides a critical edition and annotated English translation of a medical treatise written in Arabic by the Jewish philosopher Jacob ben Isaac, a contemporary of the great Maimonides, and puts the text in a historical framework.