Nurettin Uzunoğlu (1939 – 9 October 2013)[1] was a Turkish Qur'an translator and commentator, writer, missionary,[2] political scientist, academic, and professor[3] who worked as a lecturer at various universities in the United States and has the title of "Turkey's second youngest professor" at the age of 27.

He participated in external education programs at Ankara University, and devoted himself to being the most traveling scholar after Evliya Çelebi and Ibn Battuta.

[6] During his 46-year career, he has authored 34 books on various subjects, mostly in English, including the following:[8] Uzunoğlu sent the translation of the Qur'an into English to 47 heads of state around the world, including Barack Obama, Silvio Berlusconi, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin, and personally gifted the translation to Hillary Clinton when she was the US Secretary of State.

[4][5] He also has authored the world's first and only English Qur'an translation written in Braille alphabet consisting of 8 volumes and 2 thousand pages for the visually impaired.

[6] He died in Istanbul on October 9, 2013, and was buried in the Eyüp Cemetery after the funeral prayer performed in Fatih Mosque.