COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ISSUES OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5094 ISSUES OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to gain information for students on the topics of epistemology, methodology, the classification of sciences, ethics, politics in Islamic philosophy and make students able to compare and discuss these informations within the bounds of the history of philosophy.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The attendant will know the reasons for the raising of philosophy in Islam
2   The attendant will explicate the modern philosophical sciences
3   The attendant will comprehend basic processes of Islamic philosophy and its problems
4   The attendant will recognize the approaches of schools of Modern Islamic Philosophy towards the problems of Islamic Philosophy
5   The attendant will know and relate the critiques on the contents and methodologies of philosophical sciences
6   The attendant will improve the reasoning on the effects of philosophical arguments 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 to the approach towards Islamic Philosophy in the light of the problems of Tahafut in the time of 15. Century Ottoman Empire
2 The inheritence of political and moral philosophy in order to determine the place of philosophical probelms in the disciplines of Kalam and Islamic Mystisism
3 Philosophical Inheritence gaining permanency with the mediation of Ishraki School.
4 Philosophical curriculum in the ottoman empire outside the problems of tahafut: Classical Logic, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy.
5 The tranformation by the effect of Ibn Taymiyya and his fundamentalistic thought. `Pre modern revivalist reform movements
6 Reformist modernism, and evaluation of this movement s historical and political philosophy
7 Philosophical Modernism: Iqbal
8 Mid-term Exam
9 Theological Modernsim: Abduh, Middle Asia Reformation Movement, The new theologians, Izmirli
10 Political Modernism: Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Efgani
11 Traditionalism: Nasr, Faruqi
12 Critical Rationalism: Fazlur-Rahman
13 Islamization of Sciences as a critic of modernity
14 Political Rationalism

Recomended or Required Reading

M.M. Şerif; Islam Düşünce Tarihi 4
Fazlurrahman ; Islam
Hilmi Ziya Ülken; Türkiyede Çağdaş Düşünce Tarihi
Yardımcı kaynaklar:
Mehmet Zeki Işcan; Muhammed Abduh un dini ve siyasi görüşleri
Muhammed el-Behiy; Çağdaş Islam Düşüncesinin Oluşumu ve Batı
Muhammed Ikbal; Dini düşünenin yeniden oluşumu.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, research, text and concept analyse, questioning, assignments and appliance

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The attendant will improve their intellectual abilities on the topics of contemporary Islamic philosophy and its basic problems

Assessment Criteria

The success of attendant will be evaluated according to his or her degree of mid term and final exams and his or her contribution and argumentation performance

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

osman.bilen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Çarşamba 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 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Reading 1 7 7
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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