To analyze the historical development of sufi movements existing in Persian, Arab and Turkish areas and to identify its influence on social life and literature. To reveal the course of Sufism in the previously mentioned literary tradition; to introduce and analyze the prosaic and poetic works of poets and literary man.
Prerequisite(s)
Corequisite(s)
Special Requisite(s)
Instructor(s)
Professor Ömür Ceylan
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
Principle Sources
H. İbrahim Kaçar, Murat Sülün (Çev.)Ebu Ala Afifi, Tasavvuf: İslamda Manevi Devrim, -İstanbul : Risale Yayınları, 1996.
Mahir İz.Tasavvuf. 1394/1974. -- 92849 -- İstanbul : Rahle Yayınevi, 1969.
Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, 100 Soruda İslam Tasavvufu, İstanbul : Gerçek Yayınları, 1985.
Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, Mevlana’dan sonra Mevlevilik. 1402/1982. -- İstanbul : İnkılap Kitabevi, 1953.
Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, Melamilik ve melamiler. 1900-1982. -- İstanbul : Gri Yayın, 1992.
Mahmut Erol Kılıç, Sufi ve şiir : Osmanlı tasavvuf şiirinin poetikası. 2. bs. -- İstanbul : İnsan Yayınları, 2004.
Reşat Öngören. Osmanlılar’da tasavvuf : Anadolu’da sufiler, devlet ve ulema (XVI. yüzyıl). İstanbul : İz Yayıncılık, 2000.
Mustafa Aşkar, Tasavvuf tarihi literatürü. 93864 Ankara : Kültür Bakanlığı, 2001.
Ömür Ceylan,Tasavvufi Şiir Şerhleri, İstanbul : Kitabevi, 2000.
Other Sources
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
What is Sufism?, General Assessment
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
2. Week
Determination of the properties of Sufism within the historical process
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
3. Week
Belief systems affecting the understanding of Turkish Sufism
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
4. Week
Development of Sufism in Arab geography
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
5. Week
Development of Sufism in Persian geography
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
6. Week
Important Sufis in Arab and Persian geography and their influence on Turkish Sufism
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
7. Week
Midterm
8. Week
Understanding of Turkish Sufism
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
9. Week
Cultural diversity in Turkish Sufism and presenting the underlying concept
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
10. Week
Representations of sufic concepts in literature
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
11. Week
The life and works of Ahmet Yesevi, Sample Text analysis
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
12. Week
Ahmet Yesevi (Hikmetler)
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
13. Week
Süleyman Hakim Ata
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
14. Week
The life and art of Mevlana, Sample poet analysis
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
15. Week
The life and art of Niyazi Mısrî, Sample poet analysis
Lecture Discussion Comparison Question-answer
16. Week
Final
17. Week
Final
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
40
Final Exam
1
60
Program Outcomes
PO-1
The doctoral students collect the theoretical, practical information, and texts according to the department’s special method; they interpret them and attain a synthesis by making the interdisciplinary analyses.
PO-2
The students are able to grasp the historical and cultural basis of the Turkish world literature in classical period; they recognize the features of the texts’ language of this period and evaluate in terms of literary. In addition, the students recognize the scientific and sufistic works created in the collective cultural geography.
PO-3
The students are able to assess the texts of the Turkish Language and Literature from the beginning until today in terms of literary and philology.
PO-4
The students are able to follow the historical alphabets of the Turkish language through the original texts; they are able to make textual analysis by comparing with the texts of western and eastern literature.
PO-5
The students are able to identify the schools and styles situated in classical Turkish poet. They are able to read and comment on the various texts of these schools and styles.
PO-6
The students are equipped with the basic knowledge and ability to do scientific research and study in the Turkish Language and Literature at postgraduate level
PO-7
The students are able to recognize the texts of the historical and modern Turkish dialects; they are able to examine these texts in terms of lexicography, etymology, semantics, phonetics, and morphology; they are able to compare these dialects with each other.
PO-8
The students are able to attain the written and verbal sources based upon the scientific research methods and conduct a field study.
PO-9
The students are able to confirm and classify the elements of folk culture and folkloric materials in the individual and anonymous works created as part of verbal culture.
PO-10
The students find a chance to research and examine extensively the language, literature, art, and culture of the Turkish Language and Literature from the history to the present day.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
The students question the understanding of vahdet-i vücud and vahdet-i mevcud through currents of Sufism.
LO-2
The students evaluate the sufic concepts in the plane of various belief systems before Islam.
LO-3
The students are acquainted with the general history of Sufism in Persian and Arab geography.
LO-4
The students are able to evaluate the past elements from Persian and Arab tradition to the understanding of Turkish Sufism.
LO-5
The students are able to compare the basic elements of Persian, Arab and Turkish Sufism.
LO-6
The students are able to grasp the diversity of Sufic culture and tradition.
LO-7
The students are able to distinguish the sufic doctrine of various Sufis.
