Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
KALAM EDP315 5. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 4.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction English
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Tuğba ÖZOĞLU
Assistants
Goals To give the systematic themes and methodology of Kalam.
Course Content This course analyzes the systematic themes and methodology of Kalam.
Learning Outcomes 1) Students gets the capability of comprehending the themes and methods of Kalam.
2) The students acquires the capacity to trace back the theological literature deep to the classical Islam.
3) Getting to have a grasp of topic of Kalam Literature

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Being: Physical and metaphyciacal ontology The Modes of Existence/Being: Necessary, Contingent and Impossible Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
2. Week The Existence of God Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Workshop
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
3. Week Arguments for the existence of God Ontological, Cosmological and Teleological Arguments Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Workshop
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
4. Week Methods of Argumentation in Kalam: Rational and Revealed Arguments: Burhânî/Demonstrative Truth Hatabî/Dialectical Truth Burhân-ı limmî/Argument Apriori Burhan-ı İnnî/Argument Aposteriori Lecture; Discussion
Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
5. Week Epistemology/ Theory of Knowledge Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
6. Week Revelation Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Workshop
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
7. Week Prophethood Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
8. Week Teological Anthropology/Human Kind Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Workshop
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
9. Week Debates on Predetermination Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Workshop
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
10. Week Human Dignity and Related Issues Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
11. Week Apocalipcy and Escatology Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
12. Week Life After Life/Resurrection Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
13. Week Political Theology/Imamah Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Workshop
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
14. Week Phneumetology/Unseen Beings Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Abu al-Ḥasan al-Ash'arī, Maqālāt al-islāmiyyīn wa-ikhtilāf al-muṣallīn, ed. H. Ritter, rep. Wiesbaden, 1963. ___________, al-Ibāna „an uṣūl al-diyāna, Idārat al-Tibā'a al-Munīriyya, Cairo, n.d. Abu‟l-Mu„īn al-Nasafī, Tabṣira al-adilla fī uṣūl al-dīn, ed. Huseyin Atay & Şaban Ali Düzgün, Presidency of Religious Affairs, Ankara, 2005. Abū Mansūr al-Māturīdī, Kitāb al-Tawhīd, Istanbul. __________, Ta‟wīlāt al-Qur‟ān, Istanbul, 2005-2011 (multiple volumes). 'Adud al-Dīn al-Ījī, Kitāb al-mawāqif, ed. Badr al-Din al-Na'san, Cairo, 1325. „Alī al-Kārī, Sharh al-fiqh al-akbar, Cairo 1323. al-Baghdādī, Kitāb uṣūl al-dīn, Istanbul, 1928. al-Bāqillāni, Kitāb al-tamhīd, ed. R.J. McCarthy, Beirut, 1957. _________, al-Insāf fīmā yajibu i'tiqāduhū wa-lā yajūzu al-jahlu bihī, ed. Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī, Cairo, 1963. Bayāzīzāde, Işārāt al-marām min ibārāt al-merām, Cairo 1949. Fakhr al-Din al-Rāzī, al-Matālib al-'āliya min al-‘ilm al-ilāhī, ed. Ahmad Hijazī” al-Saqa', Beirut, 1987. Ghazalī, al-iqtisād fī al-i’tikād, Cairo, no date. Ḥasan al-Basrī, “Risāla”: Studien zur islamischen Frommigkeit I, Ḥasan al-Basrī, ed. H. Ritter, Der Islam 21 (1933). Ibn al-Humām, al-Musāyara, Istanbul 1979. al-Jurjānī, Kitāb al- ta'rīfāt, ed. G. Flugel, Leipzig, 1847, rep. Beirut, 1979. al-Juwaynī, al-Shāmil fī uṣū-l al-dīn, ed. 'Ali Sāmi al-Nashshār, Alexandria, 1969. Qadī Abduljabbar, el-Muğnī fī ebvābi‟t-tevhīd ve‟l- ‘adl, I-XII cilt, Tahkik: Mahmud Muhammed Kasım. al-Shahrastanī, Nihāyat al-iqdām fi ‘ilm al-kalām, ed. A. Guillaume, Oxford, 1931. Taftāzānī, Sharh al-‘aqāid, Istanbul 1304.

Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 2
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 8 4
Homework 2 3
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 2 3
Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.) 2 4
Midterm Exam 1 2
Final Exam 1 3
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 4
Dönem Sonu Sınavı (DSS) 1 3
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