Basic Islamic Sciences

 

ÇUKUROVA UNIVERSTY

DEPARTMENT OF BASIC ISLAMIC SCIENCES

GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

 

Course Title: Course of Specialisation Field

Course No:    TİB-700

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 4

Number of ECTS Credits: 0

Course Description: To look over on Islamic Thought. The classification of Theological studies and their trust and validity. The establishing and solution of theological problems.

Instructor: Adviser

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Abu Mansur al- Maturidi, Kitabu’t-Tavhid; Seyyid Şerif Cürcani, Şerhu’l- Mavakıf.

 

Course Title: The Influence of Pre-Islamic Culture in Arising of Hadiths.

Course No:    TİB-701

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The Influence of Jahiliyya culture, narrations about Gin and Satan, narrations about women’s lack of mind and religion, the narrations that say women’s having low social status, the hadiths that tell Christ rose to the heaven and turning back on the earth before the doomsday.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Ali Osman Ateş

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Ali Osman Ateş, İslam’a Göre Cahiliye ve Ehl-i Kitâb Örf ve Âdetleri, İstanbul 1996, ISBN: 975-473-134-9; Ali Osman Ateş, Kur’ân ve Hadislere Göre Cinler-Büyü, İstanbul 1995, ISBN: 975-473-111-X; Ali Osman Ateş, Kur’ân ve Hadislere Göre Şeytân, İstanbul 1995, ISBN: 975-473-120-9.

 

Course Title: The Commentary of Methods of Hadiths.

Course No:    TİB-703

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: Making use of Qoran, the hadith commentaries which were written in early periods, the works which explain the meanings of unknown words in detail, identifying the relationship of hadiths with historical and geographical events, understanding hadiths by applying for scientific techniques.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Ali Osman Ateş

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams

Text Book: Mücteba Uğur, Hadis İlimleri Edebiyatı, Ankara 1996, ISBN: 975-389-215-2; Mehmet Görmez, Sünnet ve Hadisin Anlaşılması ve Yorumlanmasında Metodoloji Sorunu, Ankara 2000, ISBN: 975-389-259-4.

 

Course Title: The Comparative Hadith Methodology I

Course No:    TİB-705

Semester: First Year, Semester I

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: Hadith and Sunnah and their definition, inclusion, position in Islam and the discussions about them. Companions of the Prophet and their situations in Islam . The criticism of chains and texts. The rules of al-carh and al-ta’dil. The reporters of hadith and their lives. The methods of tahammul al-hadiths and discussions between the sects on this subject. 

Instructor: Prof. Dr.Ali Osman Ateş

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams

Text Book: Talat Koçyiğit, Hadis Usulü, Ankara 1975; Zafer Ahmed et-Tehanevi, Yeni Usûl-i Hadis, İzmir 1982.

 

Course Title: The Role of Hadiths in Education.

Course No:    TİB-707

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The determination of The Prophet Mohammad’s comprehension of education in the hadiths. The basic principles of the Prophet in his education. The criticism of the  hadiths about education and the comparison of the modern education methods with the education methods of prophet Mohammad.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Ali Osman Ateş

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Nevzat Aşık, Sahabe ve Hadis Rivayeti, İzmir 1981; Ali Yardım, Hadis I-II, İstanbul 1997; Ahmet Önkal, Hz. Peygamber’in Eğitim Metodu, Konya 1999.

 

Course Title: The Role of Policy in Development of Theology

Course No:    TİB-709

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The theories about state in Islamic

Thought. Definition of government and its necessary.  The role of Harici in establishing of theology. Shia and Imamiyya.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Halife Keskin

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Dr. Halife Keskin, Kendi Kaynakları Işığında Şia İnanç Esasları; Dr. Ahmet Akbulut, Sahabe Devri İktidar Kavgaları; Welhausen, İslamın İlk Dönemlerinde Fikri-Siyasi Muhalefet Fırkaları.

 

Course Title: The Main Problems of Theology

Course No:    TİB-711

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: To look over on theology. The new method of theology and discussions on it.  Discussion about knowledge of theology. God`s existence and his descriptive Maturidi and Eshari scools.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Halife Keskin

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Dr. Halife Keskin, İslam Düşüncesinde Bilgi Teorisi, Dr. M. Sait Yazıcıoğlu, Maturidi ve Nesefi’de İnsan Hürriyeti, Dr. Saim Kılavuz, İslam Akaidi ve Kelam’a Giriş

 

Course Title: The Theological Basics of Political Differentiate in Islam

Course No:    TİB-713

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The establishing of political partisanship. The role of social and economic manners in political differentiate. The roots of Harici and Shai. The influence of tradition.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Halife Keskin

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Abu’l-Hasan al-Ashari, Kitabu’l-Makalat, Bagdadi, Mezhepler Arasında Farklar

 

Course Title: The Problems of Religious Thought

Course No:    TİB-715

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The followig subjects will be studied: What is religion philosophy? Similarities between religion philosophy and philosophy, interrelation of Theology and religion phisolophy, problems about the value of language of religion and its characterisrics, religious symbols, (tashbih), (tanzih), the importance of figurative language in religion, the correlation of belief and application.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Halife Keskin

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Dr. Turan Koç, Din Dili, Dr. Mehmet Aydın, Din Felsefesi; Dr. Mehmet Aydın, Dine ve Felsefeye Göre Tanrı.

 

Course Title: The Beginning of  Law

Course No:    TİB-717

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The Beginning of Islamic Law

Social life and surroundings, religion, ethics, rules of goods manners. The aims of rules of law and its principles. Law rules and regulations of law, chapter of law, law of private and public.

Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nasi Aslan

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book:Hukuk Başlangıcı, Necip Bilge,Turhan  Kitabevi,Ankara,1983   

 

Course Title: Islamic Law Methodology I

Course No:    TİB-719

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The laws which are present before Islam custom and usage of Cahiliyye. The verses of Koran in period Mekka and Medine. The scientists jurisprudence and their schools.

Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nasi Aslan

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book:İslam Hukuku Tarihi,Muhammed el-Hudârî,( Çev.Haydar Hatipoğlu) Kahraman Yayınları,İstanbul,1974;İslam Hukuk Tarihi, Hayreddin Karaman, Nesil Yayınevi,İstanbul,1989

 

Course Title: The Comparative Family Law

Course No:    TİB-721

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description:The collected view to family law. The place and important of Family Law in Islam. The marriage and its association. Divorce and its concepts. Livelihood and its kind. Inheritance and guardianship.

Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nasi Aslan

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book:İslâm-Osmanlı Aile Hukuku,M.Akif Aydın,M.Ü.İ.F. Vakfı Yayınları,İstanbul,1985;İslam Aile Hukuku,Ahmet Yaman,Konya ,2002

 

Course Title: The Contemporary Problems of Islamic Law

Course No:    TİB-723

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The Jurisprudence  and its concept and its rules, its extension and its differences. Methodical discussion. Koran and its abreviation (icaz) and evaluation on it. Sunnah, hadith validity of Sunnah. Icma its definition and its new comment today. Kıyas (comparison) and Ictihad.

Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nasi Aslan

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: İslâm Hukuku Metodolojisi,M.Ebû Zehra,Çev.A.Şener.Ankra,1981

 

Course Title: The Systematic Development of Theological Thought

Course No:    TİB-725

Semester: First Year, Semester I

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The reasons for arising of Theological Philosophy, conflicts in interpretation of religious scripts and some political issues, Islam Religion’s coming across with other religions and translation movements, imam et issue and the views of Shii and Sunni schools about it, Ru’yetullah, the rising of Fate problem, forcing in religion and the tendency in Koran and ahadith

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. İsmail Yörük

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book:Dr. Ali Sami en-Neşşar, İslam’da Felsefi Düşüncenin Doğuşu (çev:Osman Tunç), İst., 1999; Dr. Fazlur Rahman, İslam (çev:Dr. Mehmet Dağ, Dr. Mehmet Aydın), Ank., 2000.

 

Course Title: Theological Points of View to Islam Basics

Course No:    TİB-727

Semester: First Year, Semester I

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: Belief basics in Islam, "ictimai" and "Tafsili" belief, the rules of validity of belief, believing in God, angels, prophets, religious books, fate, doomsday, the titles of God, the characteristics of prophets, humanbeings’ need fo[ prophets, miracles, beauty and ugliness, "aslah alellah" matter, death, the appointed hour of death, life after death.

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. İsmail Yörük

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Dr. Hüseyin Atay, Kur’an’a göre İslam’ın Temel Kuralları, İst., 1991; Kur’an’a göre Araştırmalar, Ank., 1995-7; William C. Chittick-Sachiko Murata, İslam’ın Vizyonu (çev:Dr. Turan Koç), İst., 2000.

 

Course Title: Intellectual and Political Formations in Early Periods of Islam (I.

Century)

Course No:    TİB-729

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The first conflicts in Islam society, "Kirtas" matter, "Usame" society, the death of Muhammad, president selection after his death, Fedek matter, struggle with those who did not pay "zekat", Prophet Omer’s being caliph, first political movements "Siffin" and "Camel" events.

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. İsmail Yörük

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Abu’l-Hasan al-Ashari, Makalatü’l-İslamiyyin; al-Şehristani, al-Milal va’n-Nihal; W. Montgomery Watt, İslam Düşüncesinin Teşekkül Devri(çev:Dr. Ethem Ruhi Fığlalı), İst., 1998; Neşet Çagatay, İ. Agah Çubukçu, İslam Mezhepleri Tarihi, Ank.,1965; Dr. E. Ruhi Fığlalı, Çağımızda İtikadi İslam Mezhepleri, Ank., 1980.

 

Course Title: Theology Methodology

Course No:    TİB-731

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: (Suje) and Object in (iman), its contents, doubt and belief, definition of belief, its factors internal factors external factors, grades of belief, the relationship of (iman-amel), the relationship of (iman-bilgi), Can confession (ikrar) only be (iman).

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. İsmail Yörük

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Dr. Hanifi Özcan, Epistemolojik Açıan İman, İst., 1992; Toshuhiko İzutsu, İslam Düşüncesinde İman Kavramı(çev: Selahaddin Ayaz), İst., 1984.

 

Course Title: Hadith Literature I

Course No:    TİB-733

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The formative phases of Hadith literature. Memorization, writing and codifying of ahadits and classification them. The period of classification and Hadith books that wrote by scholars of Hadith in this period. The books which were written according to narrators: Musnads and Mu’jams. The books which were codified according to subjects: Musannaf, Jami’ and Sunans. The six famous collections of Hadith (al-Kutub al-Sitta) and their characteries.

Instructor:  Assist. Prof. Dr. Muhammet Yılmaz

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Kettânî, Muhammed b. Ca’fer, er-Risâletü’l-Mustadrafe, Kahire tsz.; Çakan, İ. Lütfi, Hadis Edebiyatı, M.Ü.İfav yay., İstanbul 1989.

 

Course Title: Sunnah Conceptions in The Earliest Period

Course No:    TİB-735

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The concept of Companion (Sahabi). Trustworthiness of the Companions. The concept of Prophet according to the Companions. Muhammad as a human. Muhammad as a prophet. Muhammad as a leader. Prophet’s authority over the Companions. Sunnah conception of the Companions and their approaches to Sunnah. External approaches and their examples. Juristic approaches and examples. Interpretative approaches and examples. Approaches of jurist Companions to Sunnah. Sunnah conceptions of the early period scholars like of Malik b. Anas, Abu Hanifah, Ahmad b. Hanbal and al-Shafi’i

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Muhammet Yılmaz

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Erul, Bünyamin, Sahabenin Sünnet Anlayışı, TDV yay. Ankara 1999, ISBN 975-389-343-4

 

Course Title: Hadith Texts I

Course No:    TİB-737

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: Some text of the Hadith Methodology and Literature. The texts of Hadith Methodology books of scholars like al-Ramahurmuzi al- Hakim, al-KhaTİB al-Baghdadi, Ibn al-Salah, al- Nawawi, al-Suyûtî, al-’Iraqi, al-Sakhawi, Ibn Hajar al-’Asqalani,  al-Qasimi. The texts of hadith books of  Imam Malik, al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, al-Nasa’i, Ibn Majah, al-Darimi and Ahmad b. al-Hanbal.

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Muhammet Yılmaz

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: el-Kütübü’t-Tis’a ve Şurûhuhâ, Çağrı Yay. İstanbul 1981-1992.

 

Course Title: Sufism Before al-Ghazali

Course No:    TİB-739

Semester: First Year, Semester 1

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: Historical development of Sufi thought. The internal and external sources of Sufism. Cloak, dhikr and  fecundation methots and their hierarchies. Sufistic doctrines of al-Mohasibi, al-Tirmidhi, Abu Thalib al-Macci, al-Sarraj, al-Kalabadhi, al-Kushayri, al-Hugwiri. Sufism on Shii and Ismaili. Approachs to sufism from point of view religious and positive sciences. The problems of Sufism and the answers of Sufis.

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Hayri Kaplan

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams.

Text Book: Tasavvuf ve Tarikatlar, Eraydın, Selçuk, M.Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi Vakfı Yayınları, İstanbul 2001, ISBN 975-548-050-1; Tasavvuf, Bardakçı, Necmettin, Fakülte Kitabevi, Isparta 2000, ISBN 975-93712-0-0.

 

Course Title: External Influences Problem in Sufism

Course No:    TİB-741

Semester: First Year, Semester 2

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: The main characteristics and limits of Studies that originated from Quran and Sunnah. Diffirences between Sufism and mystical thougth. Ideas of oriantalists about influence of Neo-Platonism, Gnosticism, Greek Philosophy, Hinduism, Persian culture, Judaism and Christianity on Sufism.

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Hayri Kaplan

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams

Text Book: Tasavvuf, Afifi, Ebu’l-Ala, Çev.: Ekrem Demirli ve Abdullah Kartal, İz Yayıncılık, İstanbul 1999, ISBN 975-355-219-X.

 

Course Title: Texts of Sufi Quran Commentary

Course No:    TİB-743

Semester: First Year, Semester 2

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: Basic Quranic verses that are used often in Sufism. Commentaries of these verses according to sufis that belong to different periods and geographies.Some example texts from  Al-Kushayri, al-Daye, al-Bakli, Bursawi etc. those wrote commentaries. Common characterictics and their functions in cultural tradition. Reflections of  esoteric commentaries on orthodox sufism.

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Hayri Kaplan

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams

Text Book: İşari Tefsir Okulu, Ateş, Süleyman, A.Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi Yayınları, Ankara 1974, Ruhu’l-Beyan, Bursevi, İsmail Hakkı, Daru’l-Ma’rife, Beyrut 1995.

 

Course Title: History of Arabıc Lıterature –I

Course No:    TİB-745

Semester: First Year, Semester 2

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3

Number of ECTS Credits: 6

Course Description: Studying of  al-jahiliyya and first Islam poets as Imrulkays, Tarafa ibn al-Abd, Amr ibn Kulsum, al-Haris ibn Hilliza, Antara ibn Şaddad, Zuheyr ibn ebi Sulma, al-Nabiğa al-Zubyaniand al-A’şa beside of Muhammad (pbuh) and Four Khalifah periods, Lebid ibn Ebi Rabia al-Hansa’s poetry and prose, khutbahs and letters sent to kings  from Muhammad (pbuh) and Four Khalifah etc. Even so, searching of literatual activities by utilizing from the same sources written in in Arabic and Western Languages.

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Tahsin Deliçay

Examination: Written mid-term and final exams

Text Book: Omer Ferrûh, Târîhu’l-edebi’l-Arabî,I-IV, Beyrut, 1992.

Ahmed el-İskenderi ve dğ., el-Mufassal fi Tarihi’l-edebi’l-Arabi, Beyrut, 1994.

Şevki Dayf, el-Asru’l-Cahili, Kahire, 1960.

Şevki Dayf, el-Asru’l-İslami, Kahire, 1963.

Şevki Dayf, el-Asru’l-Abbasiyyu’l-Evvel, Kahire, 1966.

Şevki Dayf, el-Asru’l- Abbasiyyu’s-Sani, Kahire, 1973.

Taha Huseyn, Fi’l-Edebi’l- Cahili, 1927.

Ahmet Savran, Yeni Arap Edebiyatı, Erzurum, 1991.

 

Course Title: High (Advanced) Grammar I

Course No:    TİB-747