@inproceedings{8753070,
  abstract     = {{In both The Book that Changed Europe (2010) and The First Global Vision of Religion (2010) Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt explore the intriguing Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1747, hereafter CCR) by the artists Bernard Picart and Jean-Frederic Bernard. As Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt argue, Picart and Bernard set the tone for a comparative approach to religion that will be of extreme importance for later ideas on religion in the Enlightenment period. The seventh volume of the CCR can be considered as a key moment in the construction of the image of Islam in early eighteenth-century Europe. After all, Kishwar Rizvi has already contended that the section on the Islam provides a clear example of the ways in which Picart and Bernard seem to break with stereotypes and preestablished ideas by proposing new ways of comparison between Western traditions and the religious rituals of the ‘Mahometans’. However, earlier research on the CCR refrains from stressing the importance of the highly popular and influential theatrical genre of the Turquerie regarding the Islamic ceremonies. In this contribution, I therefore intend to reconsider Picart and Bernard’s presentation of Islam by means of a methodological consideration of their comparative approach from the field of art history and performance studies. Highlighting some of the most theatrical aspects and characteristics in Picart’s engravings, as well as in Bernard’s discourse, I aim to construct a more nuanced image of the CCR’s Islamic section, in which the contributors balance between a respectful encounter with Islamic rituals and a slightly sharper dismissal of religious trickery.}},
  author       = {{Nellis, Steff}},
  booktitle    = {{Charting image and self image of Islam in Europe (Paris, 10 May 22)}},
  keywords     = {{islam,religion,Bernard Picart,rituals,costumes}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Paris, France}},
  title        = {{'En voici la Turquerie' : Charting image of Islam in Picart and Bernard’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743)}},
  url          = {{https://is-le.eu/news/charting-image-and-self-image-of-islam-in-europe/}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}