Turan Dursun
June 27, 2010 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2010 at 3:21 pm by annatar.)
He is a great scholar who murdered by muslim fanatics. his works are great sources to those who want to understand what islam really is.
His biograpy from his official website
Dursun was born in 1934 in the village of Gumustepe in the Sarkisla district of Sivas (Turkey). His father was an imam (Muslim priest) who dreamed of making his son the most prominent religious scholar of the time " unmatched in knowledge even in Basra and Kufe " . For this reason he didn't send his son , Turan , to the official primary school( where he would have received little or no religious education). As a result Turan spent his childhood under the supervision of a number of sheikhs and religious tutors in various dervish lodges. At that time the main goal of young Turan was to fulfill his father's wishes. His ambition and talent were so great that he usually finished a few -year- courses in only a few months. He learned Kurdish in 3-4 months just to be able to understand lectures from the Kurdish instructors who had the best knowledge of Islam of that time. He was still only a child when he had learned the "safv" and "nahv" dialects of Arabic as well as the forms of the Arabic language of not only the 11-12th centuries but also the 7-8th centuries. When he reached the age of 17 he had read the Kazviniye and obtained Icazet (a degree of qualification in Islam).
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Turan still had to get a diploma from the official primary school in order to qualify as mufti (an imam in charge of other imams ) -- which he soon did, and started his career as an imam in a village. Then he gave lectures in the madrasats (a religious university ) of Istanbul , Carsamba , Ucbas and Ismailaga. From 1958- 1966 he was the mufti in Tekirdag , Gemerek , Altindag and Sivas. However he was regarded as an outsider by the Islamic authorities of that time, because of his unusual interest in Kemalism (the official ideology of the Turkish Republic founded on secularism and democracy principles) and opposition to the strict application of Islamic rules (sheriath). As a result he was sent to fill unimportant posts in remote areas of the country. At this time he became known among the public as the "enlightened religious scholar". Following this, he resigned from his post because he felt he no longer believed the principles of Islam.
Dursun entered into the work of preparing programs with religious content for the official TV network, and in 1989 he began writing for the weekly "2000'e Dogru" (Towards 2000) magazine. Unfortunately, soon afterwards Dursun - at that time the father of three grown children -- was murdered.
for more information ;
http://www.turandursun.net/
His biograpy from his official website
Dursun was born in 1934 in the village of Gumustepe in the Sarkisla district of Sivas (Turkey). His father was an imam (Muslim priest) who dreamed of making his son the most prominent religious scholar of the time " unmatched in knowledge even in Basra and Kufe " . For this reason he didn't send his son , Turan , to the official primary school( where he would have received little or no religious education). As a result Turan spent his childhood under the supervision of a number of sheikhs and religious tutors in various dervish lodges. At that time the main goal of young Turan was to fulfill his father's wishes. His ambition and talent were so great that he usually finished a few -year- courses in only a few months. He learned Kurdish in 3-4 months just to be able to understand lectures from the Kurdish instructors who had the best knowledge of Islam of that time. He was still only a child when he had learned the "safv" and "nahv" dialects of Arabic as well as the forms of the Arabic language of not only the 11-12th centuries but also the 7-8th centuries. When he reached the age of 17 he had read the Kazviniye and obtained Icazet (a degree of qualification in Islam).
edit:(rest of biograpy)
Turan still had to get a diploma from the official primary school in order to qualify as mufti (an imam in charge of other imams ) -- which he soon did, and started his career as an imam in a village. Then he gave lectures in the madrasats (a religious university ) of Istanbul , Carsamba , Ucbas and Ismailaga. From 1958- 1966 he was the mufti in Tekirdag , Gemerek , Altindag and Sivas. However he was regarded as an outsider by the Islamic authorities of that time, because of his unusual interest in Kemalism (the official ideology of the Turkish Republic founded on secularism and democracy principles) and opposition to the strict application of Islamic rules (sheriath). As a result he was sent to fill unimportant posts in remote areas of the country. At this time he became known among the public as the "enlightened religious scholar". Following this, he resigned from his post because he felt he no longer believed the principles of Islam.
Dursun entered into the work of preparing programs with religious content for the official TV network, and in 1989 he began writing for the weekly "2000'e Dogru" (Towards 2000) magazine. Unfortunately, soon afterwards Dursun - at that time the father of three grown children -- was murdered.
for more information ;
http://www.turandursun.net/
Quote:Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Gandalf The Gray.
