Norşin'den Arizona'ya

by Edip Yüksel, Özgür Mandal (Translator)

Edip Yuksel Icin Ne Dediler; "Oglum Murteddir. Sadrettin Yuksel, Turkiye, 1989-04-11 Sadreddin Yuksel'i tebrik ediyoruz. Zaman gazetesi, 1988-02-03 Edip Yuksel ucurumdan dusmustur." Prof. Huseyin Hatemi, Nokta, 1989-04-09 Ummet icin fitne" Abdurrahman Dilipak, Nokta, 1989-04-09 Bu yazilar icinde, sovguden uzak, oldukca agirbasli olanlar da var. ornegin; Edip Yuksel'in cevabi. Turan Dursun, Din Bu, 1990 Bu mektuba 'Sevgili mucahidimiz Edip' diye baslamak isterdim. Emine ozkan Senlikoglu, Insanlar da 19'a Cevap, 1992-2008 Edip Yuksel bir zamanlar Turkiye'nin Salman Rusdi'si olarak taniniyordu. Hulki Cevizoglu, Ceviz Kabugu Programi, 1996-08-02 Sahtekir kimdir, soyler misin 'edeb'in e'sinden nasipsiz Edip? Hasan Karakaya, Akit Gazetesi, 1996-08-04 Edip Yuksel'i cocuklugundan tanirim. Hayati boyunca hicbir ilime tabi olmadi. 15-16 yasinda bile mucahitti, liderdi, onderdi. Hekimoglu Ismail, Zaman Gazetesi, 1996-08-05 Biz Edip Yuksel'in yalniz sozlerinden degil, uslubundan da igrendik. Bize oyle geliyor ki, ABD ve CIA iyi bir eleman yetistirmis Huseyin Uzmez, Akit Gazetesi, 1996-08-07 Adi 'Edip', ama kendisinin edep hissinden nasibi yok. Mustafa Kaplan, Akit Gazetesi, 1996-08-13 Tum Kur'an askina ve mazlumluguna ragmen Edip'in bazi yanlislari, tum tutarsizliklarina ragmen karsitlarinin da bazi dogrulari vardi. Yasar Nuri ozturk, Hurriyet Gazetesi, 1996-08-16 Dikkat edin, en buyuk hurafeler rasyonalizm adina dinle mesgul olanlarda gorulur! Sunneti reddeder; gidip 19'a inanir. Ahmet Selim, Zaman Gazetesi, 1996-08-18 Aramizda kimler yoktu ki! Yasadisi gosterinin lideri Edip Yuksel'den, ucak kaciran gazeteciler Yilmaz Yalciner ve omer Yorulmaz'a, Recep Tayyip Erdogan'a kadar zamanin unlu isimleri aramizdaydi. Mehmet Metiner, Ortak Haber, 2003-07-08 Hoca icin, herhalde, Metin'in oldurulmesinden daha hafif olmayan yikici husus ise, Metin'in abisi Edip'in durumuydu... Selahaddin Es, Haksoz Dergisi, 2005-01 1985 yilindan beri kimisi din ilimi, kimisi yazar, kimisi siyasetc

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First published January 1, 2015

About the author

EDIP YUKSEL, J.D., American-Turkish-Kurdish author and activist, was born in Turkey in 1957 the son of late Sadreddin Yuksel, a prominent Sunni scholar. During his youth he was an internationally active Islamist who spent over four years in Turkish prisons in the 1980's for his political writings and activities that promoted an Islamic revolution in Turkey.

While a popular Islamist author and 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 on 1st of July, 1986, transforming him from a Sunni polytheist to a reformed muslim, a peacemaker, and a rational monotheist. As a consequence, he was excommunicated and declared to be a heretic, an apostate deserving the death penalty. In 1989, he was sponsored for immigration to the USA by Rashad Khalifa and worked together for a year in Masjid Tucson, becoming a prominent member of the United Submitters International. However, shortly after the assassination of Rashad by a group of Sunni terrorists, he was excommunicated from the Submitters as he objected to an idol-carving gang that had infected the group with cult mentality and false ideas about Rashad.

Edip Yuksel is the author of over twenty books and hundreds of articles on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish and English. His English books are recently published by Brainbow Press, which include:

• Quran: a Reformist Translation;
• Manifesto for Islamic Reform;
• Peacemakers Guide to Warmongers, and;
• NINETEEN: God’s Signature in Nature and Scripture.

Edip is the main organizer of the international Critical Thinkers for Islamic Reform conferences is the co-editor of the annual anthology carrying the same name.

After receiving his bachelor degrees from the University of Arizona in Philosophy and Near Eastern Studies, Edip received his law degree from the same university. Besides 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 is the founder of Islamic Reform and co-founder of MPJP organizations. His online books, interviews, and articles are published at various Internet sites, including:

www.19.org
www.yuksel.org
www.quranix.com
www.islamicreform.org
www.quranmiracles.com
www.free-minds.org
www.quranic.org
www.quran.org
www.tanzil.net
www.mpjp.org

Reviews

[Ustun · Rating 4 out of 5]

This Auto-biography is about the life story of a very interesting and courageous man with whom I personally met in California. Edip has brought a Lutheran interpretation to modern day Islam refusing the amalgam of Qoran and Mahomed's life. Being very unorthodox in Turkey and sunnit world during 80's, Edip sailed to USA to start a new life. Social challenges that he confronted when his family moved from Bitlis to Istanbul and later himself from Istanbul to Tucson shed lights to a large number of details of that time from a different perspective. His political experiences during his youth are related to many people involved in Turkey's political scene of today. Although the content mixes his life and his religious views in many places, this is an interesting, funny and adventurous book worth reading.

[Ceren Ataş]

İlginç bir hayat hikayesi :)

[muhammet.olgac · Rating 2 out of 5]

§ 70’li 80’li yılların islamcılığının birinci elden tanıklığı
§ Aşırı subjektif ve yanlı anlatım
§ 19 dinin bayıcı propagandası