Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900). German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. Probably an Üzery.
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Manipulator of manipulators. He dedicated his entire life to mislead British Empire and invented a deceptive literature for them. The reasons behind this are not entirely clear and complicated. There are multiple possibilities. Multiple layers he was possibly manipulative and cooperative. And this manipulation may be very limited like he was may be just acting like voluntary spy by trying to leak things through his works. Although he sounds like he is anti-islamist and associates Turanian langugages with backwardness. That is definitely because he was part of a propaganda machine in British Empire. It is definitely not the case that he bases those fanatic ideas on anything rahter he uses fanatic languages when it comes to those to make it clear what is propaganda and what is not.
He visited Turkey in 1893. Just 7 year before his death. To visit his son working at the embassy. Stays for 3 moths. Meets Abdul Hamid II multiple times and given the "Order of the Medjidie". Normally not extraordinary but it is referred as highest class in the book “Letters from Constantinople”, p.52. Mentioned to be the first one given to a Christian that haven't serve to the Sultan. A year before this visit. He asked Ottoman Ambassador in London to send representatives to Ninth International Orientalist Congress unofficially. Another academician Leitner was also planning a congress with the same name and it went to the court. Ottoman couldn't decide on request because Leitner was also invited Ottaman and even requested Sultan to oversee it. Seems like both organized congresses in the same name although Leitner’s was very small. (Ahmet Türkan. “Osmanlı Sarayında Bir Dinler Tarihçisi: Max Müller’in Türkiye Ziyaretinin Değerlendirilmesi”. Oksident 3/1 (2021): 1-30.)
Either British had no clue or he was sent by British to discover what Ottomans may know about langauge they were speaking.
Mostly due to unconsistent and context-dependent nature of modern languages, especially non-Turkic languages, when people doesn't really understand something they almost ignore it or interpret it by overlooking aspects that doesn't fit. By exploiting this. He embedded some of his works with pretty straightforward directions and hints for someone who is looking for and pretty understandable when explained to others. Some of this hints are also based on typos like words that seems like typed wrongly as result of type. Commas that dirastically change meaning when taken into account but only realiezable by very vigilant readers. I guess this may not be the case for all of his books. But it is the case for following two books: “India: What can it teach us” and Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas, 1888.
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In this section I will place quotes from books without individual pages yet.
¶ On Islam
But if the Turks are to blame for their ignorance and dislike of Christianity, how much more are Christians to blame for the contemptuous way in which they speak of the Mohammedan religion ! Christian theologians cannot plead ignorance of the Koran, for the Koran has been translated again and again, and though a knowledge of the tradition in its various forms is requisite for an accurate knowledge of Mohammedan theology, a sufficient knowledge of the Mohammedan religion may be gained from a careful perusal of the Koran itself. There are no two religions in such perfect agreement on all essential points as Christianity and Islam. They are sisters, daughters of the same Father, and inspired by the same Spirit. If it had not been for a misunderstanding of certain doctrines of Christianity on the part of Mohammed, there can be little doubt that Christianity, pure and simple, would have been accepted by the Prophet and his followers in Arabia. (Letters from Constantinople, The Prophet, p65; Published by his wife. Collection of letters. This one is but not all belongs to Max Müller himself.) - No comment on this for now but how you understand in influenced by what do you think about what he thinks. He actually writes pretty interesting things in this letter.