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Adnan Harun Yahya

(Top left) Ahmed Rıza
(Bottom right) Salih Zeki
(Far bottom, left) Rıza Tevfik
(Far bottom, in the middle) Hüseyin
Cahit Yalçın
(Far bottom, right) Ahmet Şuayb

ion). His destructive ideas created a deep wound in Ottoman society. He was
a social Darwinist that went as far as suggesting that European men should

be brought for breeding so that Turkish race could be improved. Accord-
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ing to Abdullah Cevdet, the superiority of the races could be determined by

the size of their skulls. He was a member of the Society of the Friends of Eng-
land, which was founded by anglophiles during the occupation of Istanbul.

He published Fünûn ve Felsefe (Science and Philosophy) that sought to rec-
oncile the ideas of Islamic scholars with those of materialist philosophers and

biologists.