Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
130300103101	SELJUK OF STATE AND PRINCIPALITIES HISTORY-I	Compulsory	2	3	4

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To recognize the sources of the foundation and rising periods of Türkiye Seljuk State. To become informed about the politics followed by the sultans, their relations with neighbouring states, their personality and their role in history.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Ali İPEK

Learning Outcomes

1	The individuals who are major in their field and experienced are being grown as dependent on main principles of Republic of Turkey and convenient for the main aims of Turkish national education system.
2	They will achieve some behaviour such as being open-minded while doing scientific investigations, being suspicious and delaying decisions in the situation of having no complete proof, and they can maintain their studies with patience and care.
3	They will apply the modern methods writing and investigating history by being loyal to scientific ethical rules.
4	By learning other disciplines which can be an assist to science of history, they will benefit from the branches which will help them in their investigations and studies.
5	They will have the information of archive, library and documents. In addition, by evaluating these sources in decent way through its originality, they will present service and being of academic society.
6	Learned the Foundation of Türkiye Seljuk State
7	Learned the prosperity period of Türkiye Seljuks
8	Learned knowledge about the fall of Seljuk state and the dynasty

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Settlement of Turks in Anatolia, the Anatolian Seljuk state of the organization, development and collapse of the Turkish principalities emerged as a result of political, economic and cultural examination.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	The Big Turkish Migration and Settlement in Anatolia	reading, explanation, discussion
2	The Foundation of Türkiye Seljuk State	reading, explanation, discussion
3	Kılıç Arslan I and the political disability	reading, explanation, discussion
4	The Seljuk-Danishment competition, revitalization of the state by Mesud I	reading, explanation, discussion
5	Kılıç Arslan II, political unity and the taking advantage against Byzantium	reading, explanation, discussion
6	Sulaimanshah and the centralist state	reading, explanation, discussion
7	Period of political stabilitiy and the economic development	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam
9	The prosperity period of Türkiye Seljuks	reading, explanation, discussion
10	The disability of central administration and the Mongol invasion	reading, explanation, discussion
11	The sultanate struggles and the wars against Mongols	reading, explanation, discussion
12	The period of Muîneddin Pervane	reading, explanation, discussion
13	The Mongol domination and the suffering of Türkiye population	reading, explanation, discussion
14	The fall of Seljuk state and the dynasty	reading, explanation, discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

Osman Turan, Selçuklular Zamanında Türkiye, Boğaziçi yayn., İstanbul 1993. Osman Turan, Türkiye Selçukluları Hakkında Resmi Vesikalar, TTK., Ankara 1988. Ali Sevim, Anadolu’nun Fethi Selçuklular Dönemi, TTK., Ankara 1993. Ali Sevim–Yaşar Yücel, Türkiye Tarihi Fetih, Selçuklu ve Beylikler Dönemi, TTK., Ankara 1989. Coşkun Alptekin, “ Türkiye Selçukluları”, DGBİT (Anadolu Türk Devletleri), VIII, Konya 1994, 209-382. Mükrimin Halil Yınanç, Türkiye Tarihi, I, İstanbul 1944. Salim Koca, Türkiye Selçukluları Tarihi 1071-1176 (Malazgirt’ten Miryokefalon’a), II, Çorum 2003. Claude Cahen, Osmanlardan Önce Anadolu, İstanbul 2002. İbnü’l-Esîr, el-Kâmil fi’t-tarih, Trk. trc. Abdülkerim Özaydın, İstanbul 1987, XI-XI.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	13	2	26
Self Study	14	3	42
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	9	9
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Reading	8	4	32
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			122

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