COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROPHETHOOD IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TIS 5173 PROPHETHOOD IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Basic Islamic Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HÜSEYIN YAŞAR

Offered to

Basic Islamic Sciences

Course Objective


To gain basic teoric information about Prophecy which is major topic of Islamic Belief System to understand and interpret correctly.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Student attain to level to understand and interpret texts about Prophecy from Basic-classical sources.
2   He/she read texts in soures critically in Prophecy.
3   Student make analyze-synthesize basic approach in prophecy.
4   He/she get informaton about other religions understanding about prophecy and can compare it with Islamic approach
5   Student learn historic roots of todays discussion about Prophecy.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Prophecy before Islam: Prophecy in Judaism
2 Prophecy before Islam: Prophecy in Christianity
3 Nübüvvet Etimology according with Prophecy:NUbuwwa: Risalah etc
4 Rejections to contingency-necessetiy of Prophethood and Answers
5 Some notions and terms about proof of Prophecy such as I'caz, miracle, extra ordinary, karamah
6 Analyzing some notions such as revelation, insprition, exploring, mubassırat
7 Different opinion in Ahl Sunnah according with Prophecy
8 Prophecy according with Mutazila
9 Prophecy and Imama in Shia Doctrine.
10 Rejections to Finality of Prophethood
11 Nabi-Rasul from the view point of Finality of Prophethood
12 Finality of Prophethood and Finality of walaya
13 General critic
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Salih Sabri Yavuz, Islam Düşüncesinde Nübüvvet, Ist. Ty.
Mustafa Sinanoğlu, Kitab-ı Mukaddes ve Kur'an-ı Kerim'de nübüvvet Marmara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü-1995 Basılmamış Doktora Tezi.
Ahmet Akbulut, Nübüvvet meselesi üzerine, Ankara : Birleşik Dağıtım Kitabevi, 1992
Kâdî Abdulcebbar, Usûlu l-Hamse (tah.Faysal Avn) Kuveyt 1998.
Veliliğin sonu = Hatmu l-evliya : Velayet ve nübüvvet tartışması Ebu Abdullah Muhammed b. Ali b. Hasan Hakim et-Tirmizi; haz. Salih Çiftçi. Istanbul : Insan Yayınları, 2006.
Muhammed b. Muhammed Müfid, Evâilul-Makâlât [y.y/tsiz] : Mektebetu Serveş.
Şeyh Sadûk, Risâletül-Itikâdâtil-Imâmiyye, (ter. E. Ruhi Fığlalı) Ankara 1978.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, asking-answering, text reading.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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)

To be announced.

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 2 26
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 40 40
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 167

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.13
LO.24
LO.35
LO.45
LO.54