The resonant sounds of The Newberry Consort filled the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston and transported the audience across centuries of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday. The Newberry ...

2006-04-22T10:00:36-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ce3/191951-m.jpgCaroline Finkel talked about her book Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire ...

Princess Neslisah Osmanoglu, the oldest member of the Ottoman dynasty, has died at age 91. Also known as Neslisah Sultan, the princess married an Egyptian prince and was twice forced into exile when ...

Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Note on spelling, names, maps and quotations -- Guide to Ottoman titles -- Maps -- First among equals -- Dynasty divided -- Imperial vision -- Sultan of ...

Ertugrul Osman, who might have ruled the Ottoman Empire from a palace in Istanbul but instead spent most of his life in a walk-up apartment in Manhattan, died Wednesday night in Istanbul. He was 97.

What Finkel calls the "old" narrative of the Ottoman Empire is simple to relate: "it rose, declined, and fell." An exotic parade of salacious sultans, grand viziers and duplicitous eunuchs inhabit the ...