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
0200005119	HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SECTS - I	Elective	4	7	4

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
3	Evaluate 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

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Course of the History of Islamic Sects aim, field, method, certain concepts
2	SClasical sources of history of Islamic sects and their features, classification of sects and the judgement of sects separation
3	The first controversies and reasons which cause sect separation
4	The sect of Kharijites and Ibadiyyah
5	The sect of Murjia and Mutazila
6	The sect of Shia and basic information, Zaydism
7	The school of Ismailism and Imamiyyah
8	Midterm Exam
9	Nusayri and basic opinions
10	Yezidism and basic opinions
11	Kadiyanism and basic opinions
12	Wahhabism, emergence, basic opinions and influences
13	Bahaism, emergence and basic opinions
14	The Ahl al-Sunna; Salafiyya, Maturidism, Asharism,
15	Alevilik and Bektasis
16	Final 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 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
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		4	3	3		3
LO2			2	3	4
LO3		1	2			3

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High