Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art edited by William Greenwood and Lucien de Guise, London, British Museum Publishing, 2019

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2020: Book Review. 
Madeline Boden, 'Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art edited by William Greenwood and Lucien de Guise, London, British Museum Publishing, 2019'. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 46:1 (2020). 

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"Mary Kelly analyses several depictions of Muslims at prayer including a fascinating re-reading of Rudolf Ernst's La Charité chez les Derviches à Scutari (1893) and the work of Étienne Dinet, a French Orientalist who converted to Islam...Kelly [also] reflects on the contemporary work in the exhibition by Iranian artist, Shirin Neshat and Moroccan photographer, Laila Essaydi. Their work confronts 'two of the west's predominant stereotypes of Islam: the submissive . . . Islamic woman and the radical Islamic fundamentalist'... in an exhibition dominated by male artists, they are a welcome and insightful inclusion." (p.98-99).