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
130300105101	OTTOMAN INSTITUTIONS- I	Compulsory	3	5	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The primary objective of the course is to give detailed information about the central and provincial organization of six-hundred-year history of the Ottoman Empire. In addition to that, giving general information about culture and civilization of the Ottoman Empire is another goal of the course.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Güneş

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	to have detailed information about the organization of the court of the Ottoman Empire.
7	to evaluate the Ottoman establishements in the light of history.
8	Knows the importance of human factor in formation and functioning of the Ottoman establishments.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

The central organization of the Ottoman Empire, Divan-i Humayun, the court, the sultan and the vizier institutions, military organizations, the judiciary, the madrassas, the finance organization and the provincial administrative organization will be examined.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Understanding of the Ottoman state, the Ottoman dynasty and the state agency, board switching system, the institution of the sultan and the prince.	reading, explanation, discussion
2	Ottoman society, Muslims, Christians and Jews, the nation system.	reading, explanation, discussion
3	Central organization of the court and the kul system; rooms in the court, the harem.	reading, explanation, discussion
4	Divan-ı hümayun ,council meetings, the agenda of the Divan-ı hümayun	reading, explanation, discussion
5	The members of the Divan-i Humayun , vezir-i azam, vezirs, kadıaskers, defterdars, nişancı and qualified members participating in the divan.	reading, explanation, discussion
6	Bureaucracy of the Divan-ı Hümayun resisü'l-küttab and other bureaucrats.	reading, explanation, discussion
7	Military organization, the central forces, acemi , yeniçeri and other formations.	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam.
9	Military organization, the state forces, the pedestrian and müsellems, timarlı sipahis, akıncı and other forces .	reading, explanation, discussion
10	Organization of Finance, Treasurer and the register office, the finance bureaucracy, treasury, internal and external treasury.	reading, explanation, discussion
11	Ottoman law and historical development of it, the judiciary and ilmiye.	reading, explanation, discussion
12	Organization of the madrasa.	reading, explanation, discussion
13	Madrassa education and training procedure.	reading, explanation, discussion
14	Evaluation of the fall semester.	reading, explanation, discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

- Mustafa Nuri Paşa, Netâicu’l-Vukûèât, Kurumlarıyla Osmanlı Tarihi I-IV, Haz. Yılmaz Kurt, Ankara 2008. - Nicolae Jorga, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Tarihi, c. I-II, İstanbul 2005. - Halil İnalcık, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi, çev, Halil Berktay, c. I, İstanbul 2000. - Mithat Sertoğlu, Osmanlı Tarih Lügatı, İstanbul 1986. - Fuat Köprülü, Osmanlı Devleti’nin Kuruluşu, Ankara 1991. - Yusuf Oğuzoğlu, Osmanlı devlet Anlayışı, İstanbul 2000. - Haldun Eroğlu, Osmanlı Devletinde Şehzadelik Kurumu, İstanbul 2004. - Yavuz Ercan, Osmanlı Yönetiminde Gayrimüslimler, Ankara 2001. - Bilal Eryılmaz, Osmanlı Devletinde Gayrimüslim Tebaanın Yönetimi, İstanbul 1996. - İ. Hakkı Uzunçarşılı, Osmanlı Devleti Teşkilatında Kapukulu Ocakları II, Ankara 1988. - ----------------, Osmanlı Devletinin İlmiye Teşkilatı, Ankara 1988. - ----------------, Osmanlı Devletinin Merkez ve Bahriye Teşkilatı, Ankara 1988. - Yusuf Halaçoğlu XIV-XVII. Yüzyıllarda Osmanlılarda Devlet Teşkilatı ve Sosyal Yapı, Ankara 1995.

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	2	28
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	9	9
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Reading	7	2	14
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			90

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