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
130300105103	HISTORY OF LAW- I	Compulsory	3	5	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to teach the subjects of History of Law, its categories, periods, the importance of Turkish law history and its resources, Ottoman law system and especially Islamic law and the system of judgement.

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 progress of Islamic law system and its impacts to the history of the Turkish law.
7	To be able to recognize the evolution and progress of Ottoman law system
8	To be able to interpret customs, traditions and judicial system

Mode of Delivery

Evening Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

In this course, the most ancient periods of the history of the Turkish law and after the Islamism the new emerging law system will be evaluated. Also, especially in the Ottoman period, the use of martial and şer’i law together but in different areas will be analyzed.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Objectives and contents of the course	reading, explanation, discussion
2	The law concept, its subjects and chapters	reading, explanation, discussion
3	The pre-Islamic Turkish law	reading, explanation, discussion
4	The Islamic law and its progress	reading, explanation, discussion
5	The Islamic time Ottoman-Turkish law system	reading, explanation, discussion
6	The progress of ottoman law system	reading, explanation, discussion
7	The classical age Ottoman law system	reading, explanation, discussion
8	Midterm Exam.
9	The developments about law in 17th century	reading, explanation, discussion
10	Ottoman law system until Tanzimat period	reading, explanation, discussion
11	Ottoman law reforms	reading, explanation, discussion
12	The codes and fatwas in history of Ottoman law	reading, explanation, discussion
13	The Ottoman judicial system and its functioning	reading, explanation, discussion
14	General assessment of period	reading, explanation, discussion

Recommended or Required Reading

1.C. Üçok, A. Mumcu, Türk Hukuk Tarihi, Ankara 1982. 2. Erol Özbilgen, Osmanlı Hukuku'nun Yapısı, İstanbul 1985. 3. Ahmet Akgündüz, Mukayeseli İslam ve Osmanlı Hukuku Külliyatı, Diyarbakır 1986. 4. Sabri Şakir Ansay, Hukuk Tarihinde İslâm Hukuku, Ankara 1953.

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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