# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/turan-dursun
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:39:23.725Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/turan-dursun"
name: "Turan Dursun"
slug: "turan-dursun"
description: "Turan Dursun was a Turkish author and atheist who was a critic of Islam. A former Muslim cleric and scholar of Shia Islam, he became an atheist during his study of the history of monotheistic religions. Influenced by the 9th-century Iranian skeptic philosopher Ibn al-Rawandi, Dursun wrote a number of books about religion which included interpretations of Islamic texts, heavily criticizing Islam and the founders of its major branches."
tagline: "Turkish scholar of religious studies and writer (1934–1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Turan_Dursun.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934"
deathDate: "1990-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.92996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.turandursun.net/"
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    title: "Turan Dursun"
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    title: "Turan Dursun"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump