Harem

199 pp, color figures, hb, in English.

The private life of even a common Ottoman family was guarded like a
holy secret. Every family's harem, where its women lived and where men
from outside were not permitted to go, was the very honor of that
family, its sacred niche.
The Arabic word haram-pronounced in Turkish as harem-can mean "wife",
among other things, and is a symbol of "sacredness" and of privacy.