Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. [1]
Her book Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 was published by John Murray in England in 2005, and by Basic Books in the United States ( ISBN 0-465-02396-7). [2] [3] [4] A Greek translation appeared in 2007, Dutch in 2008, and Russian in 2010. The Turkish edition, Rüyadan İmparatorluğa: Osmanlı (2007) is in its fourth printing.
She has recently co-authored a guidebook of Turkey's first long-distance equestrian, hiking and biking route, the Evliya Çelebi Way. It is available in English and Turkish. [5]
Other works include The Administration of Warfare: The Ottoman Military Campaigns in Hungary, 1593-1606 (1988), and The Seismicity of Turkey and Adjacent Areas : A Hstorical Review, 1500-1800 (1995, also in Turkish), written with N. N. Ambraseys.
She holds honorary fellowships at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Exeter in England. [6]
Caroline Finkel is an Honorary Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter, and author of a standard work on Ottoman history, Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 (John Murray, 2005; and various languages).