Yaşar Nuri Öztürk

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.

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk
Born	(1951-02-05)February 5, 1951 Bayburt, Bayburt Province, Turkey
Died	June 22, 2016(2016-06-22) (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

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

Other websites

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