Edip Yüksel

Edip Yuksel ( * 1957 in Turkey) is a Kurdish journalist who lives in the USA. He sees himself as "Islamic reformers".

Life

Yüksel is from a known in Islamic circles in Turkey family and is the brother Metin Yüksels. He is the author of more than twenty books on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish. He also has various articles and essays written in English. He was a Turkish Islamist and a popular Islamic commentator until the mid- 1980s, when he refused his previous religious beliefs and used only the Quran alone as a source of divine laws. He became the only Muslim Koran. However, this movement is very controversial in the main circles of the Muslims, and thus won Yüksel the rejection and hostility of many religious Islamic authorities in his home country. He was arrested and publicly represented as infidel. 1989 Yüksel was released and forced to emigrate. He then settled in the United States of America, where he started his career as a lawyer.

In the United States, he worked with Rashad Khalifa, who believed he had discovered a "Code 19" in the Koran and the Muslims called for the Koran to return alone and abandon all Hadith beside him. This took about a year to up to the murder of Rashad Khalifa. Edip Yuksel represented in a font also citing the code number 19 believes Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had been commissioned by God. As proof, he pulled up his birth and death dates and the date of his landing in Samsun.

Edip Yüksel received his Doctor of Jurisprudence at the University of Arizona.

Yüksel teaches partly philosophy and logic, participates in debates and is the father of two sons. His most recent projects include the scenario of a religious and political comedy and an animated film about the life of Prophet Muhammad. He is also working on a new English translation of the Qur'an.

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