[1] Born in Güroymak, Yuksel is the author of more than twenty books on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish.

[1] However, his interpretation of the Qur'an has differed with Khalifa on a number of issues, and his work has represented a new trend within the Quranist movement.

He was a Turkish Islamist and a popular Islamic commentator until the mid-1980s when he rejected his previous religious beliefs and only used the Quran as the source of divine laws.

However, this movement is very controversial in the main Muslim circles, and thus Yüksel gained the rejection and hostility of many religious Islamic authorities in his home country.

[5] Professor Aisha Musa, from Florida International University, says in her book Hadith as Scripture about Yüksel: Although Yüksel initially came to his belief that the Qur'an is the only legitimate source of religious guidance in Islam, his own writings show much more independence than does the work of Kassim Ahmad.