Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
İLF2132022371HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SECTS Compulsory233
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)
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Samet KARAHÜSEYİN
Learning Outcomes
1Define the description of "Islamic sects" and its aim, scope, and methodology
2Describe the fundamental principles of Islamic sects and their big scholars
3Analyse contributions of Islamic sects to the Islamic Thought
Mode of Delivery
Formal Education
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
2Clasical 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
8Nusayris and basic opinions
9Druze 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,
Recommended or Required Reading
[1] Abdurrahman Bedevi, Mezâhibul-İslâmiyyîn, Beyrut 1996. [2] Bağdadî, Mezhepler Arasındaki Farklar, çev. Ethem Ruhi Fığlalı, İstanbul 1991. [3] E. Ruhi Fığlalı, İmâmiyye Şîası, İstanbul 1984. [4] Eşârî, Makalâtül-İslâmiyyîn ve İhtilafül-Musallîn, thk.Helmut Ritter, Weisbaden 1980. [5] Hasan Onat, Emeviler Devri Şii Hareketleri ve Günümüz Şiiliği, Ankara 1993. [6] İbn Hazm, el-Fasl Fîl-Milel vel-Ehvâ ven-Nihal, Beyrut 1986. [7] İmam Maturidi ve Maturidilik, (ed. Sönmez Kutlu), Ankara 2003. [8] Kummî ve Nevbahtî, Kitâbul-Makâlât vel-Fırak ve Fırakuş-Şîa, çev. Hasan Onat-Sabri Hizmetli-Sönmez Kutlu-Ramazan Şimşek, Ankara 2004; [9] Muhammed Ebû Zehra, İslâm´da Siyâsî ve İtikâdî Mezhepler Tarihi, çev: E. Ruhi Fığlalı-O. Eskicioğlu, İstanbul 1970. [10] Sönmez Kutlu, Türklerin İslâmlaşma Sürecinde Mürcie ve Tesirleri, Ankara 2000. [11] Şehristani, el-Milel ven-Nihal, tahik. Abdulemir Ali Mehna- Ali Hasan Faur, Beyrut 1993. [12] W. Montgomery Watt, İslam Düşüncesinin Teşekkül Devri, Çev. E.Ruhi Fığlalı, Ankara 1981. [13] Fazlurrahman, İslam, Çev. Mehmet Aydın-Mehmet Dağ, Ankara 2000. [14] İ. Abdulhamid, İslamda İtikâdî Mezhepler ve Akâid Esasları, M. Saim Yeprem, İstanbul 1983. [15] M.Saffet Sarıkaya, İslam Düşünce Tarihinde Mezhepler, İsparta 2001. [16] W. Montgomery Watt, İslam Düşüncesinin Teşekkül Devri, Çev. E. Ruhi Fığlalı [17] Mustafa Öz, Başlangıçtan Günümüze İslam Mezhepleri Tarihi, Ensar Neşriyat, 2016.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
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End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination155
Final Examination155
Attending Lectures14342
Self Study16232
155
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)89
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