Johannes Avetaranian
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Johannes Avetaranian
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Johannes Avetaranian, born Mehmet Şükri was originally a mullah in Turkey who converted from Islam to Christianity, and later became a missionary for the Swedish Mission Covenant Church in Southern Xinjiang (1892–1938). He translated the New Testament into the Uyghur language. He preached Christianity in Xinjiang and at a Swedish Protestant mission. He died in 1919, aged 58, in Wiesbaden. According to his autobiography, he was a sayyid, meaning a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
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Turkish sayyid, mullah, and Protestant missionary (1861–1919)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Avetaranian
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2024-02-06T01:02:25Z
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