COURSE SYLLABUS

FUNDAMENTALS AND PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC ETHICS

1	Course Title:	FUNDAMENTALS AND PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC ETHICS
2	Course Code:	ILH3088
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	6
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	3
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. ENVER UYSAL
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	E-posta: euysal@uludag.edu.tr Tel.: (0224) 2431066 - 60312 Adres: Uludağ Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	By introducing students to Islamic Ethics which is an important part of Islamic culture, and its main terms and concepts, the curriculum aims at preparing students to comprehend the main structure of Islamic culture.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	To evaluate the history, concepts, methodology, and representatives of Islamic ethics, and its relationship with contemporary understandings of ethics.;
2	To analyze ethical theories of Islam, and different and similar aspects of Islamic ethics and philosophy of ethics.;
3	To research thoughts affecting construction of Islamic ethics, especially ethical understandings which are constructed in Islamic thought and Greek philosophy.;
4	To examine ethical understandings in the classical literature of Islamic culture.;
5	To compare various ethical understandings in the Islamic thought.;
6	To evaluate the prominent thinkers of Islamic ethics and relevant literature.;
7	To correlate the concepts of value, duty, moral rule and conscience.;
8	To discuss the issue of universality and particularity in ethics.;
9	To investigate the relationship between society and morality, individual and morality, and state and morality.;
10	To have knowledge of Muslim moralists of this age and characteristic of Islamic morality.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Introduction: the description and the analysis of the concept of morality.
2	The subjects and the methodology of the science of morality and ethics.
3	The religious and non-religious sources of Islamic ethics.
4	The ethics of Greek philosophers: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
5	The prominent Muslim moralists: al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna.
6	The prominent Muslim moralists: al-Razi, Ibn Miskawayh.
7	The prominent Muslim moralists: al-Ghazali.
8	The main concepts of ethics: Values, human and moral valuesThe main concepts of ethics: Values, human and moral values
9	The main concepts of ethics: eudemonistic ethics.
10	The main concepts of ethics: the concept of duty and ethics of Kant’s moral philosophy.
11	The main concepts of ethics: Moral attitude and its features.
12	The main concepts of ethics: Hulq, temper, character and nature.
13	Muslim moralist in the Ottoman period.
14	The contemporary Muslim moralists

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Kur’an-ı Kerim Hüsameddin Erdem, Ahlak Felsefesi, Konya 2004. Macit Gökberk, Felsefe Tarihi, İstanbul 1989 Ahmet Cevizci, Felsefe Tarihi, İstanbul 2003 Mustafa Çağrıcı, İslam Düşüncesinde Ahlak, İstanbu 2000 Ahmet Arslan, Felsefeye Giriş, İstanbul 2007 Kindi, Felsefi Risaleler, çev. Mahmut Kaya, İst. 2003. Nasuriddin Tusi, Ahlak-ı Nasırî, çeviri editörü Tahir Özakkaş, İstanbul 2007 Celil Kiraz, Kur’an’da Ahlak İlkeleri, Bursa 2007 M. Abid el-Cabiri, Arap-İslam Kültürünün Akıl Yapısı, Kitabevi, 1999. M.M. Şerif, İslam Düşüncesi Tarihi I-IV, İnsan Yay., İst. 1990. Macit Fahri, İslam Felsefesi Tarihi, Birleşik Yay., İst. 2000.
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