Ottoman archives offer more material than Western-trained scholars have used.

Evidence

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. The archives are in the care of a competent and devoted staff who are always willing to place their time and knowledge at the disposal of the visiting scholar, with a personal helpfulness and courtesy that will surprise those with purely Western experience. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1991

Categorization

• XREF: Reads as the archival empiricist reply to Said’s critique — the voice of a researcher who knows the primary record firsthand. — connects to: Ottoman archives are so rich they force rewriting most Ottoman historiography; Ottoman archives could rewrite most existing Ottoman historiography. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1991; Ottoman archives were historically guarded by layered linguistic obstacles — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1996 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ottoman archives are so rich they force rewriting most Ottoman historiography; Ottoman archives could rewrite most existing Ottoman historiography. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1991; Ottoman archives were historically guarded by layered linguistic obstacles — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1996 (+5 more)