COURSE SYLLABUS

HISTORY OF TURKISH THOUGHT

1	Course Title:	HISTORY OF TURKISH THOUGHT
2	Course Code:	İLA3241
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	5
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	8
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Dr. Ögr. Üyesi HIDAYET PEKER
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	hidayetp@uludag.edu.tr 0224 2431066-60415 Uludağ Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	At the end of the curriculum, the student is expected to have acquired knowledge of the contribution of Turks to science, especially after converting to Islam, considering some scholars, such as Kharazmi, Avicenna, Biruni, Ulug Beg. In addition, it is aimed to instruct Turkish thought from Ottomon period to Republic of Turkey
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	To analyze the concept of thinking thoroughly;;
2	To evaluate the scientific actions performed by Turks;
3	To examine intellectual-scientific products after Turks’ conversion to Islam;
4	To evaluate the works of scholars in the classical age.;
5	To interpret construction process of schools in Seljuk empire period;
6	To infer the elements of Ottoman thougth;
7	To interpret scientific activities of late Ottoman period and concurrently in the Western World.;
8	To compare concepts and thinkers of literature, art and science from tanzimat to republic period.;;
9	To evaluate the intellectual activities underlying the modern thougth;;
10	To interpret the view of thought in the republic period.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The analysis of concepts of thought and science.
2	Turkish conversion to Islam and its causes and results.
3	The first Turkish intellectual works: Divan Lugat al-Turk, Dede Korkut, Kutadgu Bilig.
4	Kharizmi, al-Farabi, Biruni, Avicenna: scholars of the classical age and their works.
5	The construction process of madrasah in Seljuk period and its results.
6	Thought and science in the early Ottoman period.
7	Renaissance and the Enlightenment in the West.
8	The emergence and prominent representatives of the Modern science.
9	Intellectual activity in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth-nineteenth century
10	The influence of Modern thought on the Ottoman Empire
11	The history of thought in the Tanzimat reform era
12	The influence of modern thought on the literature, art and science
13	The relationship between religion and science from Tanzimat to the republic period.
14	The main Dynamics of thought in the republic period.

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Kaşgarlı Mahmut, Divan-ı Lügat’i-Türk, Kabalcı Yay., İstanbul 2006 Yusuf Has Hacib, Kutadgu Bilig, Kabalcı Yay., İstanbul 2007. Ahmet Yaşar Ocak, İslam, Türkler ve Türkiye, Ankara 1997. Cevat İzgi, Osmanlı Medreselerinde İlim, İstanbul 1991 Şerif Mardin, Din ve İdeoloji, İletişim Yay., İstanbul 1998 Adnan Adıvar, Türkler ve İlim, İstanbul 1981 Macit Gökberk, Felsefe Tarihi, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul 1974
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High