Savk, Serkan2023-06-162023-06-1620220963-92681469-8706https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926822000657https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14365/1496Article; Early AccessThe aim of this article is to offer a new conceptual framework for the study of various spaces in Istanbul during the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. I contend that rather than the sharp distinction manifested with the public-private dichotomy, we need to focus on gradations of privacy. I offer qapu and bab as two new concepts borrowed from the period's own repertoire for representing the macro and micro ends of the spatial gradation. Theoretically, I draw on George Simmel's definition of doors as the interfaces of spatial formation.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCoffeehousesArticle10.1017/S09639268220006572-s2.0-85192758374