COURSE SYLLABUS

IBN RUSHD AND AVERROISM

1	Course Title:	IBN RUSHD AND AVERROISM
2	Course Code:	FDB6108
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Third Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	2
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	6
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
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:	Prof. Dr. Yaşar Aydınlı
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	E-posta: yasaraydinli@hotmail.com Tel.: (0224) 2431066 - 60312 Adres: 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 influence of Aristotle on Islamic thought in the twelfth and the methods of reading classical texts.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	Aristotelian commentary, the approaches of philosopher and disputed problems will be handled in the historical order.

Learning Outcomes:

1	To examine whether Aristotelian commentators changed Aristotle’s main arguments in the process of transmission and commentary.;
2	To research the means used during the tranmission of Aristotelian philosophy to Muslim World.;
3	To analyze the influence of Aristotelian philosophy on Islamic thought in the wide historical area.;
4	To interpret the causes and results of the tradition of commentary in Islamic thought.;
5	To evaluate Averroes as a Aristotelian commentator, considering his influence on the history of thought.;
6	To discuss on the differences between Averroes and other commentators.;
7	To analyze Averroes’ approach to muslim philosophers’ views on Aristotle.;
8	To recognise Averroes’ views on the main subjects of metaphysics;
9	To analyze the intellectual structure of a period in which the main discussions took place.;
10	To evaluate Averroism in Latin thought.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The Peripatetic Tradition: Interpretative Tradition of Philosophy after Aristotle
2	The Great Interpreters of Aristotle: Theophrastos, Alexander Aphrodisias, Themistius
3	Pseudo-Aristotelian Literature
4	Aristotle and His Philosophy in the Muslim Sources
5	Averroes as the Great Commentator
6	Averroes’ View of Aristotle and His Philosophy
7	Averroes’ Criticism of al-Farabî and Ibn Sina
8	Averroes’ Philosophy: God, Universe and Human
9	al-Tafsir ma badattabia
10	Philosophy and Religion in Ibn Rushd
11	Averroes’ Criticism of al-Gazali: Two Tahafuts
12	Latin Scholasticism and Averroes
13	Siger of Brabant and Bonevantura
14	Averroes’ and Thomas Aquinas

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Aristoteles, Metafizik, İbn Rüşd, Tefsiru Mabade’t-Tabia İbn Rüşd, Tehafutu Tehafuti’l-Felasife, Kırkambar, Hüseyin Sarıoğlu, İbn Rüşd Felsefesi, Klasik Yay., İst. 2006. M. Abid el-Cabiri, Felsefi Mirasımız ve Biz, Kitabevi, İst. 2000. T. Aquinas, Suma Contra Gentiles
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	100
Total	1	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		0
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		100
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	There will be a final exam.
Information	The final exam including all lessons will be held at the end of the semester.

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