Ottoman History through the Eyes of Aşıkpaşazade is a re-evaluation of the fifteenth century Ottoman dervish and writer Aşıkpaşazade's work History of the Ottoman Dynasty from a historiographical perspective. This work has two aims the first to assess the value of Aşıkpaşazade's History of the Ottoman Dynasty within the context of fifteenth-century Ottoman historiography posing the question whether Aşıkpaşazade should be used a a source to shed light on the ideological theories of modern scholarship. It is argued that it is not particularly useful to view Aşıkpaşazade from an ideological perspective and thet his History of the Ottoman Dynasty is in need of re-evaluation from a modern pespective.