Quran: A Reformist Translation

EDIP YUKSEL is an American-Turkish-Kurdish author and activist who spent four years in Turkish prisons in the 1980's for his political writings and activities promoting an Islamic revolution in Turkey. He experienced a paradigm change in 1986 transforming him from a Sunni Muslim leader to a reformed muslim, a ra-tional monotheist, or a peacemaker. Edip Yuksel has written more than twenty books and hundreds of articles on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish, and numerous articles and books in English. Edip is the founder of 19.org, the Is-lamic Reform organization, and co-founder of Muslims for Peace, Justice and Pro-gress (MPJP). His personal site is yuksel.org. After receiving his bachelor degrees from the University of Arizona in Philosophy and Near Eastern Studies, Edip re-ceived his law degree from the same university. Edip is an Adjunct Philosophy pro-fessor at Pima Community College, and teaches various classes at Accelerated Learning Lab. He is fluent in Turkish, English and Classic Arabic; proficient in Per-sian, and barely conversant in Kurdish, his mother tongue.Yuksel, Edip is the author of 'Quran: A Reformist Translation', published 2007 under ISBN 9780979671500 and ISBN 0979671507.