COURSE UNIT TITLE

: METHODOLOGY IN ISLAMIC SCIENCES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ILT 3017 METHODOLOGY IN ISLAMIC SCIENCES COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Theology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Theology

Course Objective

To provide information on concepts of 'science', 'Social Sciences' and 'Islamic sciences'. To compare pre- and post-Islam eras based on scientific studies. To analyze philosophically science and religion, to give sufficient information about the methodology of Islamic sciences.To study the born and development period of Islamic Sciences and some essential problems that occured in these process of Islamic sciences. while centring the Quran and Hadiths as the main sources of Islamic Sciences, to give information about the methodologies, subjects and some issues of the Kalam, Tasawwuf, Fıqh, Hadith, and Tafsir which are also known as Basic Islamic Sciences.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will obtain sufficient information on concepts of 'science', 'Social sciences' and 'Islamic sciences'.
2   Will have the schema on the order of sciences and the classification of Islamic Sciences.
3   Will have information about the subjects, issues and methodologies of Basic Islamic Sciences.
4   Will learn the link and the differences between Islamic Sciences and Social Sciences.
5   Will get ideas about the paradigm from the history of Islamic sciences and get informaiton about the effects of these on the history of Islamic Thought and the history of Islamic Sciences especially on Basic Islamic Sciences.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Social Sciences and Islamic Sciences
2 Methodology of Social Sciences
3 Methodology of Islamic Sciences
4 The born and develepment of Islamic Sciences
5 The born and develepment of Islamic Sciences
6 The essential sources of Islamic Sciences and Basic Islamic Sciences (Hadith)
7 The essential sources of Islamic Sciences and Basic Islamic Sciences (Fıqh)
8 The essential sources of Islamic Sciences and Basic Islamic Sciences (Kalam)
9 The essential sources of Islamic Sciences and Basic Islamic Sciences (Tasawwuf)
10 The ways of access to knowledge and of production of it in Islamic Sciences
11 The dicipline of History of Islam, Development and methodology.
12 The dicipline of History of Islam, Development and methodology.
13 Traditional, Modern and Scientific aproaches to the Quran.
14 Traditional, Modern and Scientific aproaches to the Quran.

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Bayraktar, Mehmet, Islâm'da Bilim ve Teknoloji Tarihi, Ankara, 1992.
2. Yakıt, Ismail; Durak, Nejdet, Islâm'da Bilim Tarihi, Isparta, 2002.
3. Hakimî, M. Rıza, Islâm Bilim Tarihi; Çev. Hüseyin Arslan, Istanbul, 1999.
4. Demirci Mustafa, Beytü'l-Hikme, Istanbul, 1996.
5. Seyyid Hüseyin Nasr, Islâm'da Bilim ve Medeniyet, Çev. Nabi Avcı, Kasım Turhan, Ahmet Ünal, Istanbul, 1991.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + BUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed based on success in their mid-term and final exams along with their performance during the classes throughout the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

osman.bilen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 97

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.2111
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