Edip Yuksel is an American-Turkish-Kurdish author and activist whose work delves into a profound reform of Islam. His writings often explore a rational and monotheistic interpretation of the Quran, challenging traditional doctrines and seeking a path toward peaceful understanding. Yuksel's work is characterized by its intellectual approach and its endeavor to purify Islamic thought from dogma and extremism. Readers encounter him as a thinker unafraid to ask fundamental questions and seek truth through critical thinking and logic.
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 Holy Qur'an is the Word of God whose truth was revealed to Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel. It is divided into 14 Suras or chapters, and was traditionally transmitted by word of mouth.
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.