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
FDB-23-108	ETHICS PROBLEM IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY	Elective	1	2	6

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle

Objectives of the Course

By introducing students to Islamic Ethics which is an important part of Islamic culture, and its main terms and concepts, the curriculum aims at preparing students to comprehend the main structure of Islamic culture.

Name of Lecturer(s)

DOÇ. DR. MİRPENÇ AKŞİT

Learning Outcomes

1	To evaluate the history, concepts, methodology, and representatives of Islamic ethics, and its relationship with contemporary understandings of ethics.;;
2	To analyze ethical theories of Islam, and different and similar aspects of Islamic ethics and philosophy of ethics.;;
3	To research thoughts affecting construction of Islamic ethics, especially ethical understandings which are constructed in Islamic thought and Greek philosophy.;;
4	To examine ethical understandings in the classical literature of Islamic culture.;;
5	To compare various ethical understandings in the Islamic thought.;;
6	To evaluate the prominent thinkers of Islamic ethics and relevant literature.;;
7	To correlate the concepts of value, duty, moral rule and conscience.;;
8	To discuss the issue of universality and particularity in ethics.;;
9	To investigate the relationship between society and morality, individual and morality, and state and morality.;;
10	To have knowledge of Muslim moralists of this age and characteristic of Islamic morality.;;

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction: The Description and the Analysis of the Concept of Ethics.
2	The Subjects and the Methodology of the Science of Morality and Ethics.
3	The Religious and Non-Religious Sources of Islamic Ethics.
4	The Emergence of Ethics in Islamic Thought as a Science and the Books on the Ethics
5	The Relation of Ethics to the Other Sciences
6	Human Being in the Existential Unity and His Moral Dimension
7	The Key Concepts of Ethics: Moral Behavior and Its Characteristics
8	The Key Concepts of Ethics: Hulq, Temper, Character and Nature: The Question of whether Morality is Changeable
9	The Key Concepts of Ethics: Values, Human and Moral Values
10	The Key Concepts of Ethics: Conscience, Duty and Responsibility
11	The Prominent Muslim Moralists: al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina
12	Abu Bakr al-Razi, Ibn Miskawayh
13	al-Ghazali
14	Muslim Moralists in the Ottoman Period and Contemporary Muslim Moralists

Recommended or Required Reading

Kur’an-ı Kerim Hüsameddin Erdem, Ahlak Felsefesi, Konya 2004. Macit Gökberk, Felsefe Tarihi, İstanbul 1989 Ahmet Cevizci, Felsefe Tarihi, İstanbul 2003 Mustafa Çağrıcı, İslam Düşüncesinde Ahlak, İstanbul 2000. Ahmet Arslan, Felsefeye Giriş, İstanbul 2007 Kindi, Felsefi Risaleler, çev. Mahmut Kaya, İst. 2003. Nasıruddin Tusi, Ahlak-ı Nasırî, çeviri editörü Tahir Özakkaş, İstanbul 2007 Celil Kiraz, Kur’an’da Ahlak İlkeleri, Bursa 2007 M. Abid el-Cabiri, Arap-İslam Kültürünün Akıl Yapısı, Kitabevi, 1999. M.M. Şerif, İslam Düşüncesi Tarihi I-IV, İnsan Yay., İst. 1990. Macit Fahri, İslam Felsefesi Tarihi, Birleşik Yay., İst. 2000.Enver Uysal, Ahlaki Varlık Olarak İnsan, Emin Yayınları, Bursa 2018. M. Abid el-Cabiri, Arap Ahlaki Aklı, Mana Yayınları, İstanbul 2015. Recep kılıç, İnsan ve Ahlak, TDV Yayınları, Ankara 2005. Hümeyra Özturan, Ahlak Felsefesinin Temel Problemleri, Nobel Yayınları, İstanbul 2015.

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)

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	2	2
Final Examination	1	5	5
Attending Lectures	12	1	12
Self Study	14	2	28
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	6	1	6
Individual Study for Final Examination	16	8	128
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			181

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9
LO1	2	2	4	3	3	2	3	3	4
LO2	2	2	3	2	2	4	3	3	3
LO3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
LO4	2	1	1	2	2	1	3	2	2
LO5	2	3	4	2	2	5	2	3	4
LO6	3	4	2	4	3	4	3	1	2
LO7	3	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	3
LO8	2	2	3	1	3	3	3	3	3
LO9	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	4
LO10	3	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	5

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