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Edip Yüksel
Kurdish American activist and Quranist Muslim
Edip Yüksel (born December 20, 1957) is an American-Kurdish activist and prominent figure in the Quranism movement.[1] Born in Güroymak, Yuksel is the author of more than twenty books on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish. After settling in the United States, where he began his career as a lawyer, he became a colleague and friend of Rashad Khalifa.[1] However, his interpretation of the Qur'an has differed with Khalifa on a number of issues, and his work has represented a new trend within the Quranist movement.