Start with high-confidence history of syria books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Istanbul
John Freely
The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan
Ottoman Centuries
Lord Kinross
The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq
Edward Seymour Forster
A Traveller's History of Turkey
Richard Stoneman
Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire
Mehrdad Kia
