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Qur’an translation of the week #160: The Turkish Diyanet’s Foreign-language Publishing Projects

The Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, usually known simply as the Diyanet) was established in 1924 by the nationalist government of the newly emerged Turkish Republic. Initially a secular institution of, it has undergone a continual process of transformation throughout the almost one hundred years of its operation as it adapts to …

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Qur’an translation of the week #150: An ‘anti-capitalist’ translation: Yaşayan Kur’an (‘The Living Qur’an’) by Recep İhsan Eliaçık

In February 2023, a court in Istanbul ruled that the distribution and sale of the Turkish translation of the Qur’an authored by Recep İhsan Eliaçık (b. 1961) would no longer be permitted. The case was brought by Diyanet, the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs, on the basis of legal powers it acquired in 2019 to …

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