TAR661 - CLASSICAL ISLAMIC HISTORY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLASSICAL ISLAMIC HISTORY | TAR661 | 1st Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Dr. Ahmet YaÅŸar Ocak | |||||
| Course objective | This course aims to teach the history of Islam in the classical period as a whole. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | The process of the emergence and development of Islam | |||||
| References | Lewis, B. (2001), Tarihte Araplar, İstanbul. Lewis, B. (2005), Ortadoğu, Ankara. Lapidus, I. (2002, 2010), Arap Toplumlarının Tarihi, 2 cilt, İstanbul. Hourani, A. (1997), Arap Halklarının Tarihi, İstanbul. Hodgson, H. G. (1993), İslam?ın Serüveni, 1. ve 2. Ciltler, İstanbul. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Political, social, economic, cultural and religious status of pre-Islamic Arabia |
| Week 2 | The birth of Islam and historical figure of its Prophet |
| Week 3 | Mecca period, the Immigration and Medina period, wars, treaties. the conquest of Mecca, Islam's final domination, the death of the Prophet |
| Week 4 | Era of the Four Caliphs, the start of the era of conquest and its development, Ridda wars, the conquest of Egypt, Syria and Iran, the Civil War (3rd caliph Osman's murder, the era of Hz. Ali, battles of Jamal and Siffin), Umayyad-Hashemite strife |
| Week 5 | The Umayyad takeover of power, the establishment of the Umayyad State and Muawiyah, the Battle of Karbala, the rooting out of the Umayyad caliphate, the period of Abdulmalik b. Marwan and after |
| Week 6 | Midterm exam |
| Week 7 | The Abbasid Revolution and the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate, the foundation and development of the Abbasid Caliphate, rebellions after the murder of Abu Muslim. |
| Week 8 | The periods of Harun al-Rashid, Amin, Ma'mun and Mu'tasım |
| Week 9 | Abbasids and Byzantine |
| Week 10 | Regional disengagements |
| Week 11 | Midterm exam |
| Week 12 | The Late Abbasid Period, the collapse of Abbasid Caliphate |
| Week 13 | Al-Andalus Umayyads, Almovarids, Almohads |
| Week 14 | Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid-Abbasid rivalry, the Ayyubids and the Crusaders |
| Week 15 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 50 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 2 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 16 | 32 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 32 | 73 | 180 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 6. Develops and completes an independent project to investigate the background of a current problem and develops solutions by interpreting the findings. | X | ||||
| 7. Learns teamwork, carries out collaborative studies with other social science fields to solve complex problems. | X | ||||
| 8. Follows the scientific studies in history and in other social sciences published in Turkish and foreign languages, prepares papers, articles, and reports with different data and methods. | X | ||||
| 9. Acquires a questioning perspective, tries to understand the thoughts and actions of others, makes self-criticism, presents their findings and thoughts in a scientific manner. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest