Caroline Finkel har høstet mye lovord for dette storverket om Det ottomanske rike. Historien strekker seg fra 1200-tallet og frem til nederlaget i første verdenskrig.

 "For so important a force for so much of history, the Ottoman Empire has received remarkably little serious attention from genuine scholars. Caroline Finkel's magnificent new historical panorama, Osman's Dream, changes that once and for all. In an age when a working knowledge of the world of Islam is no longer a refinement but a necessity, Caroline Finkel's magnificent survey should be required reading."  - William Dalrymple