A “Revolutionary” Kurdish Mullah from Turkey: Mehmed Emin Bozarslan and His Intellectual Evolution.

This article focuses on the life and thoughts of Mehmed Emin Bozarslan, a Kurdish mullah from Turkey. He was born in 1934 in a village in the district of Lice in Diyarbakir. Bozarslan's father was also a village mullah. His life story was described as a commitment to voicing his people's problems. He is said to be exceptional because he had a critical and oppositional voice and was in dialogue and debate with various social and political agents and institutions such as sheikhs, tribal chieftain and muftis as well as leftist intellectuals in Turkey. Bozarslan refers Islamic teachings based on the Qurʾān and the sayings of the Prophet as egalitarian in characteristic. Several books published by Bozarsland which earned hostile reactions from other Muslim leaders are mentioned.