Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
0200005119HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SECTS - IElective474
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
This course´s main aims are to gain general notion to the students about various Islamic sects; to improve critical, comprehensive and coherent thinking on religion and sects; to constitute the idea that Islamic sects should be understood as different interpretations of Islam and they should not identified with Islam; to intensify the mentality that diversities are respected.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1 Define the description of "Islamic sects" and its aim, scope, and methodology
2 Explain the religious, etnic, cultural, social and political diversity of Islamic sects and their reasons
3Evaluate having a general notion of basic Islamic sects and their formative periods
Mode of Delivery
Daytime Class
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Description of "Islamic sects"; its aim, scope, and methodology; basic concepts and sources; reasons of the formation of Islamic sects ; the earliest political and theological diversifications in religious understanding and the process of institutionalize; the Kharijites, the Murjia, Mutazila sect and the schools of Basra and Baghdad, Shiite sects, Sunnism; the reasons which are effective in the emergence of these sects; their formative periods, fundamental principles; the sub-sects; the areas they lived.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Course of the History of Islamic Sects aim, field, method, certain concepts
2SClasical sources of history of Islamic sects and their features, classification of sects and the judgement of sects separation
3The first controversies and reasons which cause sect separation
4The sect of Kharijites and Ibadiyyah
5The sect of Murjia and Mutazila
6The sect of Shia and basic information, Zaydism
7The school of Ismailism and Imamiyyah
8Midterm Exam
9Nusayri and basic opinions
10Yezidism and basic opinions
11Kadiyanism and basic opinions
12Wahhabism, emergence, basic opinions and influences
13Bahaism, emergence and basic opinions
14The Ahl al-Sunna; Salafiyya, Maturidism, Asharism,
15Alevilik and Bektasis
16Final Exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Ethem Ruhi Fığlalı, Çağımızda İtikadi İslam Mezhepleri; M. Saffet Sarıkaya, İslam Düşünce Tarihinde Mezhepler,Mustafa Öz, Başlangıçtan günümüze İslam Mezhepleri Tarihi, Nevbahti, Firaku’ş-Şia, Osman Aydınlı, Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e İslam Mezhepleri Tarihi Yazıcılığı. Abdulbaki Gölpınarlı, Tarih Boyunca İslam Mezhepleri tarihi ve Şiilik
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
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)3
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PO
1
PO
2
PO
3
PO
4
PO
5
PO
6
PO
7
LO1 433 3 
LO2  234  
LO3 12  3 
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High
 
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