Edip Yüksel (born December 20, 1957) is an American-Kurdish activist and prominent figure in the Quranism movement. Born in Güroymak, Yuksel is the author of more than twenty books on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish. After settling in the United States, where he began his career as a lawyer, he became a colleague and friend of Rashad Khalifa. However, his interpretation of the Qur'an has differed with Khalifa on a number of issues, and his work has represented a new trend within the Quranist movement.
Biography Yüksel comes from a Kurdish family who lived in Turkey, and is brother of Metin Yüksel. He is the author of more than twenty books on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish. He has also written various articles and essays in English. He was a Turkish Islamist and a popular Islamic commentator until the mid-1980s when he rejected his previous religious beliefs and only used the Quran as the source of divine laws. He became a Quran-only Muslim, or known as Quranist. However, this movement is very controversial in the main Muslim circles, and thus Yüksel gained the rejection and hostility of many religious Islamic authorities in his home country. In 1989 Yüksel was forced to emigrate. He then settled in the United States of America, where he began his career as a lawyer. In the US, he worked with Rashad Khalifa, who claimed to have discovered a Quran code, also known as Code 19, in the Quran and called on Muslims to return to the Quran alone and to abandon all hadiths.
Yüksel is critical of Islamic creationists, such as Harun Yahya.
Professor Aisha Musa, from Florida International University, says in her book Hadith as Scripture about Yüksel:
English Books 19 Nineteen: God's Signature in Nature and Scripture Peacemaker's Guide to Warmongers: Exposing Robert Spencer, David Horowitz, and other 19 Questions for Muslim Scholars Test Your Quranic Knowledge 19 Questions for Christian Clergy An Unconventional Skirmish on "Unintentional" Lies Unorthodox Articles The Prime Argument Running Like Zebras: An Internet Debate Miscellanous Articles on Philosophy and Law Quran: A Reformist Translation Manifesto for Islamic Reform Turkish Books
Yusuf'un 40. Emri Kur'an'da Demirin Kimyasal Esrarı Kur'an: Görülen Mucize İlginç Sorular-1 İlginç Sorular-2 Kitap Okumanın Zararları Sakıncalı Yazılar Müslüman Din Adamlarına 19 Soru Türkçe Kur'an Çevirilerindeki Hatalar Üzerinde 19 Var Demokrasi/Oligarşi/Teokrasi Asal Tartışma Mesaj: Kur'an Çevirisi Mor Mektuplar Hristiyan Din Adamlarına 19 Soru Takanlar ve Takılanlar Politik ve Dini Açıdan Türban Nedir? Ne Değildir? Norşin'den Arizona'ya - Sıradan Bir Adamın Sıradışı Öyküsü
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