Edip Yüksel

EDIP YUKSEL, J.D. American-Turkish-Kurdish author, activist and inventor (1957). Spent over four years in Turkish prisons in 1980's for his political writings/activities that promoted an Islamic revolution in Turkey. While a popular Islamist youth leader, Edip adopted the Quran Alone philosophy after corresponding with Rashad Khalifa and reading his landmark book, Quran, Hadith and Islam. This led him to experience a paradigm change in 1986. He parted ways from his comrades, including Tayyip Erdogan and Ahmed Davudoglu, who have been leading Turkish politics for over a decade. Consequently, he was declared to be a heretic, an apostate deserving death. In 1989, he was sponsored for immigration to the USA by Rashad Khalifa and worked together in Masjid Tucson until his mentor's assassination in 1990.

Edip Yuksel is the author of over thirty books and hundreds of articles on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish and English. Edip Yuksel is the author of over thirty books and hundreds of articles on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish and English. His English books include Quran: a Reformist Translation, Manifesto for Islamic Reform, Peacemaker's Guide to Warmongers, NINETEEN: God’s Signature in Nature and Scripture, 19 Questions for Christians, 10 Questions for Atheists. Edip organizes international Critical Thinkers for Reform conferences; so far in Atlanta, Oxford, Los Angeles, Almaty, and Istanbul. He is the co-editor of the anthology carrying the same name.

Edip Yuksel has given lectures at various universities, including University of Arizona, Emory Law, UT Dortmund, Oxford University, Middle East Technical University, Princeton University, European Parliament and British Parliament. After receiving his bachelor's degrees from the University of Arizona in Philosophy and Near Eastern Studies, Edip received his law degree from the same university. Besides activism, writing and lecturing, Edip works as an Adjunct Philosophy professor at Pima Community College. Edip is fluent in Turkish, English and Classic Arabic; proficient in Persian, and barely conversant in Kurdish, his mother tongue.

Edip Yuksel, J.D.

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Each of us must use our own mind in pursuit of truth. (17:36; 10:100; 39:17-18; 41:53; 42:21; 6:114-116; 10:36; 12:111; 20:114; 21:7; 35:28; 38:29).