Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
Contemporary Kalam Issues TİB664 3 + 0 3.0 7.5
Prerequisites None
Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery Face to face
Course Coordinator
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Assistants
Goals To introduce the problems of faith in the modern era. To introduce the intellectual activities realized in the name of proof and defense of the principles of Islamic Faith.
Course Content The problems of faith in the modern era
Learning Outcomes - To have knowledge about belief problems faced by today's people
- To be able to make researches about the reflections of these problems in the historical process and how they are handled
- To gain knowledge about questions and answers about belief in today's people.
Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Learning Methods
1. Week Contemporary denial movements. Materialism, Positivism, Nihilism.
2. Week Agnosticism, Evolutionism, Freudism
3. Week Deism, Pantheism, Panentheism
4. Week Today's cosmology, isbat-ı Vacip in Islam
5. Week What is human? And human conception of Islam
6. Week Faith of Destiny, Issues of Will
7. Week The Problem of Evil
8. Week Midterm exam
9. Week Belief in the Hereafter
10. Week Reason Revelation relationship Revelation, prophethood
11. Week Tekfir Issue
12. Week Islamophobia, Racism,
13. Week Relation between religion and politics,
14. Week Relation between religion and politics,
Recommended Sources
Recep Ardoğan; Günümüz Kelam Problemleri, Editör; Klm Yayınları, İstanbul 2018 Din felsefesi / Mehmet S. Aydın. -- 2. bs. -- İzmir: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, 1990. Cağfer Karadaş; İnanç Konusunda Bilinmesi Gereken 88 Soru, , İstanbul, 2019,Beyan yay. Metin Özdemir, İslam düşüncesinde kötülük problemi / -- İstanbul: Furkan Yayınları, 2001. Numan Abdurrazzak Samarrai; Geçmişte ve Günümüzde Tekfir Meselesi. /; çev. Orhan Aktepe. -- İstanbul: Vahdet Kitap Kulübü, 1990.
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements Contribution Level DK1 DK2 DK3 Measurement Method
PY1 5 5 5 5 -
PY5 5 5 5 5 -
*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
Course's Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
Method of assessment/evaluation Written exam Oral Exams Assignment/Project Laboratory work Presentation/Seminar
ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm 1 1 3 3
Homework 1 2 45 90
Homework 2 2 47 94
Final 1 4 4
Total Workload 191
ECTS Credit of the Course 7.5