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On the list of things not to expect when visiting one of the largest departments in the Turkish government, being called a beautiful man and meeting an official who knows New Jersey better than you do are probably right at the top.

My trip to the Diyanet has been memorable from the get-go.  After I scrambled [...]

Tomorrow morning I’m catching an early flight to Ankara where I’ll spend a couple days interviewing people at the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), one of Turkey’s two governmental institutions for administering Islamic religious life.
The Diyanet produces all the sermons I’ve been studying and is also responsible for sending imams to DITIB mosques in [...]

Yesterday I went with Princeton professor Heath Lowry to visit the Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), a first-class research facility sponsored by the same agency that coordinates DITIB activities in Germany.  When I discussed my project with Dr. Lowry in Princeton this spring he thought it’d be a good idea to introduce me to some [...]