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From the title of the Robert Withers book on the Topkapı Palace and Ottoman Government, “A
Description of the Grand Signour’s Seraglio, or Turkish Emperors Court”, London, 1653
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For a recent analysis of how myth‐spinning on Ottoman Harem is closely related to enhance the
image of despotic MiddleEast see Christine Isom‐Verhaaren, “Royal FrenchWomen in the
Ottoman Sultans’ Harem: The Political Uses of Fabricated Accounts from the Sixteenth to the
Twenty‐first Century”, Journal of World History 17, No.2 (2006): 159‐196
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Jean BaptistTavernier, Nouvelle Relation de l’Interieur du Serrail de Grand Seigneur contenant
plusiers singularitez qui jusqu’icy n’ont pas esté mises en lumiere, Paris,1681, p.15
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Christine Isom‐Verhaaren, “Royal FrenchWomen in the Ottoman Sultans’ Harem: The Political
Uses of Fabricated Accounts from the Sixteenth to the Twenty‐first Century”, Journal of World
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