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THE FIRST TRANSLATIONS OF THE QURʾAN IN MODERN TURKEY (1924–38)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2009

M. Brett Wilson
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In 1925, the Turkish parliament commissioned a translation of the Qurʾan from Arabic to Turkish as well as a Turkish-language Qurʾanic commentary. This project is commonly misunderstood as an initiative engineered by Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) and linked to the radical institutional reforms of 1924: abolition of the Islamic caliphate, prohibition of the Sufi orders, and closure of the medreses. In fact, parliament's support of a Qurʾan translation was not a radical nationalist reform but an initiative supported and executed by devout intellectuals who opposed other facets of Islamic reform in the early years of the Turkish republic.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , August 2009 , pp. 435a
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