Ottoman archives could rewrite most existing Ottoman historiography.

Evidence

The treasures of the Turkish archives are now fairly easily accessible in the physical sense. All that is necessary is to obtain permission from the Prime Minister’s Office in Ankara, and it is now usually given to bona fide scholars. Though the catalogue is far from complete, sufficient material is already listed and accessible to occupy generations of researchers and to impose a rewriting of most of what has been written on Ottoman history. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1991

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the claim, central to subaltern/Said-adjacent scholarship, that Ottomanists historiography was written from Western sources and that the internal archive remains under-used; supports calls for archive-based revision. — connects to: Ottoman archives are so rich they force rewriting most Ottoman historiography; Ottoman archives offer more material than Western-trained scholars have used. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1991
• QUESTION: Which Western-language schools of Ottoman history specifically rested on non-archival sources, and has the archive-driven rewrite actually happened by now?