Ottoman archives remain barely catalogued and could force a rewriting of the field

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

Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: What has the incomplete catalogue hidden — and has the promised scholarly ‘rewriting’ actually happened since this was written?

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