Osmanlı History And Institutions — Mehmet Maksutoğlu

Western literature about the Osmanlı Devlet however scholarly it may seem comprises a huge monument of distortion Since for too long the Ottomans have been studied without use of any of their sources resulting in serious distortion and error No history of France would be considered methodologically sound and balanced if it were written on the basis of English and Italian observations Stanford J Shaw and Ezel Kural Shaw History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey Cambridge University Press 1992 II x This book is based mainly on Osmanlı sources and represents an entirely new approach