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This is vast. Starts at Ertugrul and continues till after the establishment of turkey.
Finkel hasn’t written an overly academic account but it she has also not strayed from the facts. Particularly noteworthy is how the transition to sprawling empire raised the all powerful Ottoman sultan’s prestige ever higher but increasingly made turned him into a bird in a gilded cage