Johannes Avetaranian
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Johannes Avetaranian (born Muhammad Shukri Effendi) (30 June 1861-11 December 1919) was a Turkish descendent of Mohammed who later became a Christian missionary. While a mullah in Turkey, he converted to Christianity, and later became a missionary to Eastern Turkestan (present day Xinjiang, China. He translated the New Testament into the Uyghur language
Avataranian was born in Erzurum, in 1861, to a Muslim family. His mother was deaf, blind, and mute, and died when Avatarian was only two years old, his father was a dervish.
He took the Armenian name of John Avetaranian (Avetaranian means 'son of the Gospel') and was baptised in Tiflis (modern-day Tbilisi, Georgia) on 28 February 1885. [1]
He was the first person from the Mission Union of Sweden to stay in Kashgar (in 1892).
He left Kashgar in 1897, thinking that he would soon return, but that did not work out. Instead he worked with the German Orient Mission in Bulgaria, where he started a Christian newspaper, Gunesh, in Turkish. The newspaper was circulated in Turkey proper.
Gustaf Raquette came to Filippopel, now Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where he worked with Avetaranian on revision of the Bible translation.
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[edit] References
- ^ A Muslim Who Became a Christian by John Avetaranian
[edit] Bibliography
- Avateranian, Johannes & Bechard, John (tr); A Muslim Who Became A Christian (Hertford: Authors Online Ltd.)
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