About Daniel Wickwire
Daniel Wickwire was born California in 1951 and grew up in the city of Bakersfield graduating from High School in 1969. He became a believer in Christ when he was 11 years old and was baptized when he was 21.
He served for 3 years in the US Army between 1970-1973. While in the Army he was trained as a Medic, Paratrooper, and a Green Beret and served a tour of duty as a Combat Medic in Vietnam.
He studied at Bakersfield College for 2 years and graduated with an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts in 1974.
He studied Bible at Multnomah School of the Bible for 3 years and graduated with a Bachelors in Theology and a minor in Greek in 1977.
He studied Bible at Columbia Graduated School of Bible and Missions in Columbia South Carolina for 2 years and graduated with a Masters Degree in Bible in 1983.
He studied Linguistics for 4 years at the University of Washington at Seattle, University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Oklahoma at Norman and finished a Masters Degree in Linguistics at Pacific Western University in California in 1987.
He did 1 year of doctoral studies in Islamics at Ankara University as a special guest student in the Department of Islamic Theology between 1995-1996. Dan has given seminars comparing and contrasting Islam with Christianity around the world.
Daniel is married to Devri and is the father of 3 sons: Derek Yekta (84), Andrew Nadir (86) and Peter Can (89). They served as church planting missionaries in Ankara, Turkey for 28 years from 1985 > 2013 and since 2013 they have been serving with Frontier Alliance International in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. FAImisison.org
Dan has written a number of books in English and in Turkish and some of his books have been translated into other languages most of which which are all posted on this website:
See Devri's You Tube 18 part video series on the Song of Songs at
His Bride Production.
Daniel Wickwire was born California in 1951 and grew up in the city of Bakersfield graduating from High School in 1969. He became a believer in Christ when he was 11 years old and was baptized when he was 21.
He served for 3 years in the US Army between 1970-1973. While in the Army he was trained as a Medic, Paratrooper, and a Green Beret and served a tour of duty as a Combat Medic in Vietnam.
He studied at Bakersfield College for 2 years and graduated with an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts in 1974.
He studied Bible at Multnomah School of the Bible for 3 years and graduated with a Bachelors in Theology and a minor in Greek in 1977.
He studied Bible at Columbia Graduated School of Bible and Missions in Columbia South Carolina for 2 years and graduated with a Masters Degree in Bible in 1983.
He studied Linguistics for 4 years at the University of Washington at Seattle, University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Oklahoma at Norman and finished a Masters Degree in Linguistics at Pacific Western University in California in 1987.
He did 1 year of doctoral studies in Islamics at Ankara University as a special guest student in the Department of Islamic Theology between 1995-1996. Dan has given seminars comparing and contrasting Islam with Christianity around the world.
Daniel is married to Devri and is the father of 3 sons: Derek Yekta (84), Andrew Nadir (86) and Peter Can (89). They served as church planting missionaries in Ankara, Turkey for 28 years from 1985 > 2013 and since 2013 they have been serving with Frontier Alliance International in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. FAImisison.org
Dan has written a number of books in English and in Turkish and some of his books have been translated into other languages most of which which are all posted on this website:
- An Analytical Analysis of the Similarities and Differences Between the Qur’an and the Bible, 216 pp. in Turkish, 2007; 306 pp. in English, 2009.
- A Theological Sourcebook, 240 pp. in English, 1985; 240 pp. in Turkish 1987.
- A Theological Source Booklet, 2020, in 10 languages, 40 pages.
- An Outline of Jihad in Islamic History, 2015, 144 pages, in English and Turkish.
- Batıkent Protestant Church Constitution, 48 pp. in Turkish only, 2002.
- Emmaus Intensive Course Syllabus, 2023, 228 pages.
- Has the Bible Been Changed? (as is claimed by Muslims), 1st Ed. 48 pp. in Turkish, 1987; 2nd Ed. 48 pp. in Turkish, 1994; 1st Ed. 96 pp. in English, 2007 & 2016. Now in 9 languages. (published in the USA through Thomas Nelson Publishers, also Life Sentence Publishers, Aneko Press,
- The Reliability of the Scriptures According to Jewish, Christian an Islamic Sources, 420 pp. in Turkish only, 1999.
- The 99 Names of God: The Esmaül-Hüsna in the Qur'an and in the Bible, 120 pages in English, 2017; in 9 languages.
- The Sevmek Thesis: A Grammatical Analysis of the Turkish Verb System: Illustrated by the Verb “Sevmek” = “To Love”, 170 pp. published thesis in both English and Turkish, 1987; 910 pp. 2nd Ed. 1,000 pages in English and Turkish with 14,000 different examples of the verb “love” in Turkish, 2010.
- The Role of Prayer and Fasting in Binding and Loosing with Special Reference to the Problem of Reaching the Unreached People of the World Today, 78 pp. unpublished thesis at Columbia in English, 1983.
- The Wickwire Compendium of Islam, 1,000 pages in English, 201
- What are the Differences between Catholics and Protestants? 107 pages, 2021 in 8 languages.
- 100 Questions about the Bible and the Qur’an, 144 pp. 1st Ed. in Turkish, 2001; 144 pp. 2nd Ed. in Turkish 2003; 144 pp. 3rd edition in Turkish, 144, pages, 2009; 1st Ed. in English, 2003; 144 pp. 2nd Ed. in English, 2004.
- 200 Questions About the Bible and the Qur’an, 200 pp. in English & Turkish, 2014.
- 200 Questions About the Bible and the Qur’an (Pocket sized booklet), 120 pp. in about 52 Languages: Albanian, Amheric, Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi (Gurmukhi & Shamukhi), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese & Yuroba.
See Devri's You Tube 18 part video series on the Song of Songs at
His Bride Production.