Kadir Mısıroğlu
1933–2019 (age 86)
Biography
Kadir Mısıroğlu (24 January 1933 – 5 May 2019) was a Turkish Islamist writer, publisher, and conspiracy theorist. He was known for his staunch opposition to the early Kemalist regime of Turkey and advocating the restoration of the caliphate. Mısıroğlu's claims include that Joseph Stalin ordered his army to read the Quran on the sands against the Nazis, William Shakespeare being a secret Muslim, and that Karl Marx's Das Kapital was dictated by Jinn. He propagated neo-Ottomanist historical revisionism in line with his Islamist and monarchist ideology; however, this subjective approach contained serious flaws, such as methodological problems and the distortion of texts. His works have been criticised for their approach, awareness and bias.