B.L. (Lee) Turner graduated from San Jose Bible College with a Bachelor of Theology Degree in 1947. In 1956, after having served nine-and-one-half years in evangelistic Christian ministry at Vancouver, Washington, he entered the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania, where in 1959 he completed his M.A. Degree in South Asia Regional Studies. His thesis was "A Contribution to the English Historical Cartography of Iran in the Early Islamic Period".
Following the completion of his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he and his family sailed to Pakistan in August 1960 where th...