Nurettin Uzunoğlu was a Turkish Qur'an translator and commentator, writer, missionary, political scientist, academic, and professor 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 spoke nine foreign languages, including English, German, French, Arabic, Japanese, Urdu, and Malay; and became fluent in English at a young age.

The Qur'an has been translated into most major African, Asian and European languages from Arabic.