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.

Had Ertugrul Osman, the exiled heir to the Ottoman throne, attended his own funeral this week, he would have been amused at the incongruity of the crowd. In one corner were a couple of old friends ...

Introduction: the white castle -- The beginning: Gazi Osman and Orhan -- The sultan and his converted slaves: Murad I -- Resurrecting the dynasty: Bayezid I, Mehmed I, and Murad II -- Conquering the ...

The Ottomans tried to introduce reforms so that the people did not abandon the Ottoman idea and imagine replacements for it. They failed, writes Tarek Osman In the half century before the fall of ...

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

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 ...