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
130300106203	HISTORY OF LAW- II	Compulsory	3	6	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to teach and comprehend to students the land law, commercial law, military law with the judges (kadıs), public officials, their appointment, dismissals and nasbs in the Turkish and especially in the Ottoman law system.

Name of Lecturer(s)

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 be able to list and distinguish the judges, public officials, their appointments and dismissals in the implementation of ottoman law
7	To be able to comprehend the customary and şer’i law practices
8	be able to interpret the rules of the Ottoman law in general

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Since the inception of the legal system by making an overall assessment of legal rules applied in Ottoman period the system will be examined.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Objectives and contents of the course	reading, explanation, discussion
2	The implementations of law rules in first periods.	reading, explanation, discussion
3	The areas where the customary and şer’i laws are validable	reading, explanation, discussion
4	Judges and other officers	reading, explanation, discussion
5	The appointments, dismissals and nasbs of the judges and other officals	reading, explanation, discussion
6	The implementation of the rules of law	reading, explanation, discussion
7	General assessment of subjects	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam.
9	The overview of the different areas of the Ottoman law	reading, explanation, discussion
10	Ottoman land law and its application	reading, explanation, discussion
11	Ottoman commercial law and its application	reading, explanation, discussion
12	Ottoman military law and its application	reading, explanation, discussion
13	The legal practices in Ottoman Courts	reading, explanation, discussion
14	General assessment of period	reading, explanation, discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

1.M. Akif Aydın, Türk Hukuk Tarihi, İstanbul 2009. 2. M. Akif Aydın, İslâm ve Osmanlı Hukuku Araştırtmaları, İstanbul 1996. 3. Turgut Akpınar, Türklerin Din ve Hukuk Tarihi, İstanbul 1999. 4. A. Akgündüz-H. Cin, Türk Hukuk Tarihi, Konya 1989. 5. Uriel Heyd, Türk Hukuk ve Kültür Tarihi Üzerine-Makaleler, Ankara 2002. 6. Mehmet Şener, İslam Hukukunda Örf, İzmir 1987.

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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