Ottoman historiography degenerated as Ottoman civilization declined

Evidence

By the end of the 18th century the general decline in Ottoman civilization was reflected in its historiography, and the resonant periods of the great historians sometimes degenerated into mere verbiage and bombast. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 2006

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European framing of the Ottoman Empire as declining outlived the empire itself — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1736; Ottoman decline stemmed from institutional resistance to Western science, not internal decay — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1741; Ottoman memoir tradition was so weak that major texts were unknown to its historiography — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1914
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: European framing of the Ottoman Empire as declining outlived the empire itself — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1736; Ottoman decline stemmed from institutional resistance to Western science, not internal decay — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1741; Ottoman memoir tradition was so weak that major texts were unknown to its historiography — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1914

Broader Connections

• Ottoman decline stemmed from institutional resistance to Western science, not internal decay #complicates (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1741