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Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
ILA410.12Present Sufi MovementsElective483
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
To understand the main, importance and impacts of sufi orders in modern Turkey.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Yrd. Doç. Dr. AHMET ÖZKAN, Prof. Dr. HALİL İBRAHİM ŞİMŞEK
Learning Outcomes
1Evaluating the role of sufism before Republic.;
2Analyzing the contributions of sufi associations and publications to cultural life.;
3Understanding the impacts of sufism on social life after the declaration of Republic.;
4Analyzing the reasons of banning sufi hospices
5Evaluating the role of sufism after the first democtaric prectices.;
6Focusing on the point of views of political parties
7Analyzing the attempts to open the sufi hospices.;
8Recognizing the place of sufism in the Islamic and western worlds.;
9Evaluating the reasons of criticism to sufism ;
10Analayzing the reflections of the sufi life to contemporary life.;
Mode of Delivery
Second Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Understanding the main, importance and impacts of sufi orders in modern Turkey.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Sufism and sufi orders at the present
2The role of sufis in the First Constitutional Era.
3The sufi associations and publications.
4The position of sufi leaders in the first Assembly
5The controversial role of sufism after Republic
6The process of banning of sufi hospices.
7The main reasons of the banning of sufism.
8The early democratic life the attitudes towards sufism
9The changes between 1950-1960 within the sufi life.
10The proposals for opening the sufi hospices
11Sufism and sufi hospices in the Islamic world.
12The impacts of sufism on the west.
13Criticism of sufism.
14The problems of sufi life and their solutions.
Recommended or Required Reading
Mustafa Kara, Metinlerle Günümüz Tasavvuf Hareketleri, İstanbul 2002. 2. Ruşen Çakır, Ayet ve Slogan, İstanbul 1990. 3. Erol Güngör, İslam Tasavvufunun Meseleleri, İstanbul 1982. 4. İsmail Kara, İslamcıların Siyasi Görüşleri, İstanbul 2001. 5. Amiran Kurtkan, Sosyolojik Açıdan Tasavvuf ve Laiklik, İstanbul 1977.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination13030
Final Examination16060
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)90
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