Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
ISLAM, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY İLH422 2 + 0 2.0 3.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery Face to face
Course Coordinator
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Goals This course aims to analyzes that the concepts of human rights and democracies.
Course Content this course analyzes that the emergence of the concepts of human rights and democracies and their basic parameters.
Learning Outcomes 1) He/She defines human rights.
2) He/she analyzes the Relationship between democracy and Islam.
3) He/she can relates the human rights with the core values of Islam.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Definition of human rights Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
2. Week Religious, moral, philosophical and legal grounds of human rights Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool; Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
3. Week Classification of rights, international conventions and legal texts on human rights. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool; Workshop
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
4. Week National legal texts on human rights. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
5. Week Institutions and organizations, Democracy and the state of law Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
6. Week Democracy and other political systems. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
7. Week The theological foundations of human rights in Islam. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
8. Week The legal basis of human rights in Islam. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
9. Week Evaluation of Islamic political thought in terms of theoretical foundations and democracy. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
10. Week Political systems in Islamic thought. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
11. Week Islam and secularism. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
12. Week Freedom of thought and expression in Islam Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
13. Week Islam, human rights and democracy. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool; Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
14. Week Islam, human rights and democracy. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Opinion Pool; Colloquium
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Ali Rıza Temel,İslam'da ve Batı'da İnsan Hakları ve Hürriyetleri, İstanbul 1993.
Hüseyin Hatemi, İnsan Hakları Öğretisi, İstanbul 1988.
İbrahim Ö. Kaboğlu, Özgürlükler Hukuku: İnsan Haklarının Hukuksal Yapısı, İstanbul 1998.
Khaled Ebu el-Fadl, Islam and The Challenge of Democracy.
Yasemin Karaman, İnsan Hakları Eğitimi, Ankara 2000.

ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 3
Homework 1 2
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 1 1
Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.) 1 1
Midterm Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 1
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 1
Dönem Sonu Sınavı (DSS) 1 2
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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