Originally Posted by xerxes

its simply called "Ottoman empire. the classical age 1300-1600"
by Halil Inalcik, I am not sure if you would consider him as biased or not ....
but i didnt think of him that way.

the only two other books that have read recently goes delve deep one the issue of Suleiman the Lawgiver another Mehmet the Second. Personnlly, i am more into infos such as names of different dynaties that Turkish overthrow, vassal states, their various titles and at one point did the sultan attained the, then slow breakup, the statues of various Balkan states coming independents etc.etc.

there is a website and i think you would greatly apperciated the shear amount of names and work in there .. ti concerns the whole history

The Ottoman Sultans of Turkey & Successors in Romania