Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
130300103101SELJUK OF STATE AND PRINCIPALITIES HISTORY-ICompulsory234
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
1The 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.
2They 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.
3They will apply the modern methods writing and investigating history by being loyal to scientific ethical rules.
4By 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.
5They 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.
6Learned the Foundation of Türkiye Seljuk State
7Learned the prosperity period of Türkiye Seljuks
8Learned 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
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1The Big Turkish Migration and Settlement in Anatoliareading, explanation, discussion
2The Foundation of Türkiye Seljuk Statereading, explanation, discussion
3Kılıç Arslan I and the political disabilityreading, explanation, discussion
4The Seljuk-Danishment competition, revitalization of the state by Mesud Ireading, explanation, discussion
5Kılıç Arslan II, political unity and the taking advantage against Byzantiumreading, explanation, discussion
6Sulaimanshah and the centralist statereading, explanation, discussion
7Period of political stabilitiy and the economic developmentreading, explanation, discussion
8Midterm Exam
9The prosperity period of Türkiye Seljuksreading, explanation, discussion
10The disability of central administration and the Mongol invasionreading, explanation, discussion
11The sultanate struggles and the wars against Mongolsreading, explanation, discussion
12The period of Muîneddin Pervanereading, explanation, discussion
13The Mongol domination and the suffering of Türkiye populationreading, explanation, discussion
14The fall of Seljuk state and the dynastyreading, 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 ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination122
Attending Lectures13226
Self Study14342
Individual Study for Mid term Examination199
Individual Study for Final Examination11010
Reading8432
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)122
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