COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOURCES FOR THE OTTOMAN HISTORY IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 5035 SOURCES FOR THE OTTOMAN HISTORY IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NURI ADIYEKE

Offered to

History

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to teach knowledge and skill of Ottoman paleography in high level to read archive documents and periodicals of the period.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Providing students with access to resources by making the definition of resources
2   To ensure that the student has knowledge about Ottoman history and historians
3   Being familiar with various sources
4   To learn the usage characteristics of early Ottoman sources

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of sources for the early Ottoman history
2 Classification of early Ottoman sources
3 Early Ottoman histories and historians (15-16th centuries)
4 Early Ottoman histories and historians (17-18th centuries)
5 Ottoman Archives: Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives (Defter)
6 Ottoman Archives Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives (Retail Documents)
7 Ottoman Archives Topkapı Palace Archive, Land Registry Office Archive, Waqf Archive
8 Midterm exam
9 Waqf Archives
10 Various Kadi Registers
11 Foreign Archives
12 Books and documents of different nature
13 Travel books
14 Literary works, layihas, political writings
15 Source critique
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Cumhurbaşkanlığı Osmanlı Arşivi
Tapu Kadastro Arşivi
Vakıfla Arşivi
Muhtelif Kadı Sicilleri
AFYONCU Erhan, Tanzimat Öncesi Osmanlı Tarihi Araştırma Rehberi, Yeditepe Yayınları, Istanbul, 2007.
Ahmed Refik, Alimler ve Sanatkarlar, Hilmi Kütüphanesi, Istanbul, 1924.
AKGÜNDÜZ Ahmet, Şer iye Sicilleri Mahiyeti, Toplu Kataloğu ve Seçme Hükümler, c.I-II, Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Vakfı, Istanbul, 1988-1989.
BABINGER Franz, Osmanlı Tarih Yazarları ve Eserleri, (Çev: Coşkun Üçok), Kültür Bakanlığı Yayını, Ankara, 1982.
Balkanlar ve Italya da Şehir ve Manastır Arşivlerindeki Türkçe Belgeler Semineri, (16-17 Kasım 2000), Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayını, Ankara, 2003.
BALTA Evangila, Ottoman Studies and Archives in Greece, The Isıs Pres, Istanbul, 2003.
BARKAN Ö. Lütfi, Edirne Askeri Kassamı na Ait Tereke Defterleri (1545-1659) , Belgeler III, Türk Tarih Kurumu, (1966)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture. Different sources, especially archives, will be defined and special examples will be examined in the course.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

TBA

Assessment Criteria

1) LO 1-3 will be asked in mid-term exam
2) LO 1-5 will be asked in final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance is obligatory.
2. Participation to the term and final examinations will be considered in the evaluation.
3. Cheating in any examination is considered an extremely serious offence.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

E-mail: nuri.adiyeke@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 0 232 301 8750

Office Hours

Tuesday, 13.00-14.50.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 146

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.133344
LO.244
LO.34444
LO.444