Yaşar Nuri Öztürk

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk
Yaşar Nuri Öztürk
Born	February 5, 1951; Bayburt, Bayburt Province, Turkey
Died	June 22, 2016 (aged 65); Istanbul, Turkey
Cause of death	Stomach cancer
Nationality	Turkish
Education	Islamic School of theology and Law
Alma mater	İstanbul Üniversitesi
Notable work	"Kur'an'daki Islam" (Islam in the Qur'an); ; "Kur'an Meali" (Adoptation of Elmalılı Muhammed Hamdi Yazır's Qur'anic exegesis in 1935 into Nowadays Turkish);
Region	Turkey
School	Quranism
Institutions	Professor and the Dean of the School of theology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey; Visiting Professor, Theological Seminary of Barrytown, New York; Visiting Professor, Grenoble University, Grenoble, France;
Main interests	Islamic philosophy, theology, kalam, tafsir, tasawwuf
Notable ideas	Quranism - Active propagation of pure and root understanding of Islam through Qur'an
	Influences Mansur Al-Hallaj, Zayd ibn Ali, Abū Ḥanīfa, Socrates, Ibrahim an-Nazzam, Mu'tazilite, Qarmatians, Ismāʿīlīs, Ikhwan as-Safa', Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity, Sufism, Fatimid Caliphate, Abu l'Hasan al-Ashari, Nasir Khusraw, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Mustafa Kemal, Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Elmalılı Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Süleyman Ateş;
	Influenced Alevism;

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk (February 5, 1951 – June 22, 2016) was a Turkish university professor of Islamic theology, Quranist Muslim, lawyer, columnist and a former member of Turkish parliament.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Öztürk died on June 22, 2016 at his home in Istanbul from stomach cancer, aged 65.^[7]

References

↑ "YouTube". www.youtube.com.
↑ Yaşar Nuri Öztürk was born in Bayburt, but grown up in the village of Fındıcak in Sürmene , Trabzon.
↑ Haberleri, ABChaber.com - Güncel son dakika. "İlahiyatçı Yaşar Nuri Öztürk hayatını kaybetti". ABChaber.com - Güncel son dakika haberleri. Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
↑ "Yaşar Nuri Öztürk'ün yaşı ve sevgilisi" [Yaşar Nuri Öztürk's age and girlfriend] (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
↑ (in Turkish) Yaşar Nuri Öztürk lost his life. – Ulusal Kanal
↑ "Gökçek 29 Ekim'de müstafi olmuş: Şimdi ibre Tuna'yı mı Tiryaki'yi mi gösteriyor?". Yurt Gazetesi (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-04-24.
↑ Erat, Turgut (2016-06-24). "Yaşar Nuri Öztürk son yolculuğuna uğurlandı". Ünlü İlahiyat Profesörü Yaşar Nuri Öztürk hayatını kaybetti! Ölümündeki acı tesadüf...Sözcü (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-06-24.

Audio - Turkish Translation of Qu'ran- Audio files of Qu'ran as translated by Y. Nuri Öztürk