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The epitome of the Western Enlightenment, Bernard Picart’s frontispiece to his 'Histoire générale des ceremonies, moeurs et coutumes religieuses de tous les peoples du monde' depicts the religions of the world.
The Muslims sit underneath a small cliff grouped around a camel just at the mouth of hell.