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Yaşar Nuri Öztürk
Born (1951-02-05)February 5, 1951
Bayburt, Bayburt Province, Turkey
Died June 22, 2016(2016-06-22) (aged 65)
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
Main interests
Islamic philosophy, theology, kalam, tafsir, tasawwuf
Notable ideas
Quranism - Active propagation of pure and root understanding of Islam through Qur'an

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.

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

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