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 | The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History) by Leslie P. Peirce Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-19-508677-5 / 0195086775 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-508677-5 / 9780195086775 The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed o | |