Ahteri (Akhterī, d. 968/1560–1 or 986/1578–9) is the appellation of the Turkish scholar and lexicographer Muslihuddin Mustafa b. Şemseddin el-Karahisari (Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafā b. Shams al-Dīn al-Ḳaraḥiṣārī), who was born in Karahısar (present-day Afyonkarahisar, in western Turke…
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Ottoman-Turkish lexicography in Europe first appears in the tenth/sixteenth century. Earlier works on the Ottomans had appeared in the ninth/fifteenth century in Europe, and these works, in addition to providing information on the cultural, political and social aspects of the Ot…