COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN ISLAM

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TII 5139 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN ISLAM ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to present to the students the basic topics, concepts, problems of science in Islamic philosophy and make the students able to comprise philosophical and theological ideas concerning science by a philosophical view.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student will be acquainted with the concepts of science also the reasons behind the existence of science in Islam
2   The students will explain the classical definition of sciences
3   The students will comprehend the debates and differences about sciences
4   The students will recognize different ideas about the place of natural sciences and their function and comprehend relations between them.
5   The students will know and relate the critiques about the content and method of natural sciences.
6   The students will improve reasoning on the effects of philosophical debates on the history of science and culture in Islam

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: The concept of knowledge and science in Islamic Thought
2 The epistemological theories in Islamic Thought: The possibility of knowledge, its esence and value
3 Classification of knowledge and sciences according to human skills, learning order.
4 Ideas about the content, method and definitions of Islamic sciences and philosophical sciences
5 The concept of knowledge in the works of Jurisprudence, Theology and Sufism
6 The classifications of science in Islamic Philosophy: Rhazes, al- Kindi, The brethren of purity
7 Classification of sciences in al- Farabi and Avicenna
8 Midterm
9 The classification of sciences and their method and value in Ghazali and Fakhr Razi
10 Averroes and the relationship between philosophy and religious sciences
11 The knowledge of history and method of religious sciences according to Ibn Khaldun
12 The classification of science in Ottoman Thought
13 Epistemolojical debates in contemporary Islamic Thought
14 The comparison between Islamic Sciences and Philosophical Sciences

Recomended or Required Reading

Osman. Classification of Knowledge in Islam (1998)
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Science and Civilization in Islam (2001
Bakar, O. 'Science', in S.H. Nasr and O. Leaman, History of Islamic Philosophy (1996); Jan P. Hogendijk, Abdelhamid I Sabra, The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives (2003) Hourani, G. Essays on Islamic Philosophy and Science (1975)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Research, Text and concept analyse, question- answer, assignment

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The success of the student will be determined by mid term, final exams and their attendence and argument performance in the class

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Osman.bilen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 16:00 17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Reading 4 5 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.13
LO.22
LO.33
LO.42
LO.53
LO.63

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