Edip Yüksel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Edip Yüksel

former member of the United Submitters International

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1957

Place of Birth: Bitlis, Turkey

Profession: writer, translator, author

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Edip Yüksel (born December 20, 1957 in Güroymak, Turkey) is a Kurdish American author and philosophy professor of Sunni Muslim background.
He is an exponent of the modern Islamic reform and Quranism (Quraniyoon) movements and is known for his criticism and rejection of Sunni and Shiite version of Islam.
Author of many books on the Qur'an and Islam, he has gained much attention through his works and speeches.Yüksel promotes Theistic evolution as opposed to Creationism, and is critical of Islamic creationists, such as Harun Yahya, who is known for his cult and Holocaust denial.Yüksel is a former member of the United Submitters International group, some adherents of which believe there is a numerological significance to the number 19 in the Quran.