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nationalism and in the footsteps of Turkey, he was in favor of replacing the Arabic script with the Latin script in his native language. Not everyone in the
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Zinnetullah Ahsen Böre was married three times. His first wife was Katiye
Ziadetdin, his second wife Mürside Bedretdin and his third Safiye Kemaletdin. From his first marriage, he had two daughters, Saadetbanu and Afife, and from his second marriage he had one daughter, Gülanber. From the third
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In 1931, Ahsen Böre published a
Finnish translation of Lord Headley's work which focused on Islam. In 1936, Ahsen Böre started the process of translating the Quran to Finnish. The official translator of the text was Russian-born Georg Pimenoff and the proofreading was done by the Finnish school
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started the pursuits for the independence of the minorities of Russia, but Ahsen Böre thought it was all hopeless and was against it fiercely. Due to the many conflicts that ensued, he eventually was deported from
Helsinki. In June 1920 he moved to
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of his village, a man named
Abdulvahap for his religious upbringing. In his memoirs, he remembers the imam as someone who could bring great clarity into difficult questions he might have had regarding the subject.
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Tampere, which once again focused on selling fabrics and furs. Before becoming a Turkish citizen, Ahsen Böre had a
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with his family. In 1922, Ahsen Böre applied for
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the first time as a merchant himself. While his father did always remind him of the importance of righteousness, Ahsen Böre credits the local
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later in his life and in 1972, published the first
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