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Adnan Harun Yahya

Baha Tevfik (top), Ethem Nejat (top
right) and Celal Nuri İleri (bottom right),
among the materialist and evolutionist
writers of the Abdul Hamid II era

book Tarih-i İstikbal (History of Future) (1915) that Islam should be reformed
by means of materialism and evolution. According to Celal Nuri, matter was

everywhere, every moment and could not have possibly gone bad. He believed
that power was an inherent part of matter, that the two were interlinked and

could not be separated. He made a feeble attempt to reconcile Islam and the
theory of evolution. The truth is, he rejected belief in God right in the be-

ginning of his book, making his intentions clear that, as an evolutionist, he
was only trying to spread an atheistic ideology in the Empire.

The Theory of Evolution in the Ottoman-Arab Lands

Before 1876, which was the year Abdul Hamid II ascended to the throne,
no books or articles had ever been written in the Arabic world about Darwin

or his theory of evolution. The first time something about Darwin was ever
written was in 1882. It should be noted that when the British deep state in-

vaded Egypt in 1881, Al-Azhar University became a haunt of the evolution-
ists.