COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EVOLUTION OF OTTOMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SAT 5009 EVOLUTION OF OTTOMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

History Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR YAHYA ARAZ

Offered to

History Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to teach Ottoman historians and history and show transformations and evolutions that Ottoman History and Historiography underwent, via first hand sources.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to have knowledge about biography of Ottoman Historians
2   to compare Ottoman Histories
3   to analyze Ottoman Histories
4   to comment on changes of Ottoman Historians in the historiography
5   to comment on the contemporary problems of Ottoman historiography studies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Content, aim and definition of the course
2 Main sources of Ottoman History and Historiography
3 Sources about early Ottoman Period: Tevarih Alı Osman'lar
4 Analysises of Asık Pashazade, Nesri, Dursun Bey and Oruc Bey
5 Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî, Mustafa Selanikî, Mustafa Cenabî
6 Hoca Sadeddin, Pecevi, Solakzade
7 Katip Celebi, Evliya Çelebi, Mehmet Halife
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 History of Müneccimbası, Defterdar Sarı Mehmed, Naima
10 History of Silahdar, Rasid, Ahmed Vasıf and other histories of chroniclers
11 Histories of Samdanizade, Ahmed Resmi, Sanizade
12 Esad Efendi, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Their Life and Works
13 Tayyarzade Ata, Mustafa Nurı Pasha
14 Mehmed Süreyya, Mehmed Şakir Pasha, Mizancı Murad Bursalı Mehmed Tahir, Abdurrahman Şeref and other historians of the late period of Ottoman
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Babinger, F. (2000). Osmanlı Tarih Yazarları ve Eserleri. Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Yayınları
2- Adalıoğlu, Hasan Hüseyin. (1999). "Osmanlı Tarih Yazıcılığında Tevârih-i Âl-i Osman Geleneği", Osmanlı Ansk., Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları
3- Bayrak, M. O. (1982). Osmanlı Tarihi Yazarları. Istanbul: Er-Tu Matbaası
4- Inalcık, Halil. (2000). "Aşıkpaşazâde Tarihi Nasıl Okunmalı " Söğüt ten Istanbul a Osmanlı Devleti nin Kuruluşu Üzerine Tartışmalar. Ankara
5- Inan, Kenan. (1996). "Klasik Devir Osmanlı Tarihçilerinde Kaynak Kullanma Usulleri", Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi, C. XVIII, S. 29, s. 91-135
6- Osmanlı Tarihleri (Temel Metinler)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 +ASG* 0.10 + FCG* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.30 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Yahya ARAZ
yahya.araz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 173

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55