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Last Friday’s sermon was another twofer.  The topic of the first informal message was lying and the topic of the ritual sermon was bribery.
The preacher started by lamenting the fact that lying is all too common in the community and gave a couple examples of what he had in mind.
First, he described a situation […]

Last Friday I listened to the sermon at my neighborhood mosque, partly because I had interviewed the imam the day before and partly because the acoustics at Sehitlik Mosque, while beautiful, can make it hard for a non-native Turkish speaker sitting in the back to catch the whole thing.
Both the message delivered before Friday prayers […]

Fatih is in the US by now, but before he left we met at the WZB on Thursday to discuss sermons in depth.  He brought with him a copy of the first sermon he ever preached back when he was just 15 years old.  The sermon was written by an imam from Turkey with a […]

Today I went to the DITIB mosque around the corner from my apartment to attend Friday prayers and listen to the sermon.  This was the first time I’ve ever gone in with everyone else on a Friday and sat down to listen to one.  I’ve heard sermons broadcast on loudspeakers outside of mosques in Istanbul […]