Manifesto for Islamic reform
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Yuksel reintroduces the actual message of the Quran. He removes the accumulated layers of man-made dogmas and traditions that have attached themselves to the text.
Edip Yuksel es un autor y activista estadounidense-turco-kurdo cuya obra profundiza en una profunda reforma del Islam. Sus escritos a menudo exploran una interpretación racional y monoteísta del Corán, desafiando las doctrinas tradicionales y buscando un camino hacia la comprensión pacífica. El trabajo de Yuksel se caracteriza por su enfoque intelectual y su esfuerzo por purificar el pensamiento islámico de dogmas y extremismo. Los lectores se encuentran con él como un pensador que no teme hacer preguntas fundamentales y buscar la verdad a través del pensamiento crítico y la lógica.



Yuksel reintroduces the actual message of the Quran. He removes the accumulated layers of man-made dogmas and traditions that have attached themselves to the text.
Code 19 was hidden in the 74th chapter of the Quran and discovered by the author's colleague, Dr. Rashad Khalifa, an Egyptian-American biochemist, in 1974. The code suggests a "Copernican revolution" in theology of religions. Instead of Krishna-centered, Jesus-centered, or Muhammad-centered religions, people must turn to the original center, to the God-centered model.
The Reformist Translation of the Quran offers a non-sexist and non-sectarian understanding of the divine text that explicitly rejects the authority of the clergy to determine the likely meaning of disputed passages and uses logic and the language of the Quran itself as the ultimate authority in determining likely meanings.