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The Harem arranged in a clear systemFor nearly four centuries, the Ottoman sultans dwelt amid the secret splendors of Topkapi Palace. Access to the Grand Seraglio which served as the empire's administrative, legislative, and judicial center and an academy of fine arts, as well as the ruler's home was jealously guarded, even after the sultans ceased to reside there in the mid nineteenth century. In 1936, a distinguished scholar of Orientalism, Norman Mosley Penzer (1892 1960), was