Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS CreditsLast Updated Date
1HIST 101History of Modern Turkey I2+2+03520.11.2023
Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program BA Program in Law (%30 English)
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Compulsory
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course HIST 101 is designed for developing a better understanding not only of late Ottoman history but also of the broader issues of the globally formative period that the long nineteenth was. With this feature, the course extends the analytical thinking skills of students by examining various ways of approaching the same time period and improves their historical knowledge with regards to the socio-political realities of late Ottoman/Turkish history.

With the extensive use of visual material, including pictures, charts, etchings and maps, students can better grasp the time, space, events, and actors of late Ottoman history. Therefore, having successfully completed the course, students will gain a sense of geography accompanying the historical narrative.

As HIST 101 requires regularly reading a number of articles on weekly basis, those who take the course will gain the ability of self-discipline and time management as well as a strong commitment to deadlines. The course, with the assignment of response papers, will give students the opportunity of learning how to structure, formulate, argue and write simple and short pieces. Students are also expected to learn how to avoid verbiage and hot-air while writing a paper.
Course Content The long nineteenth century, stretching from 1789 to 1914, left its decisive imprint both on the Ottoman Empire and its prime successor, the Republic of Turkey. Facing a pervasive western colonialist expansion, the need for change knocked the door ever more urgently than before. This was reflected in various military, administrative, economic and judiciary reforms that functioned as survival strategies and set the background of the modern Turkey in direct and indirect ways.

This course focuses on internal and external developments that caused the gradual dissolution of the multi-religious and multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into lands where religious and ethnic-linguistic distinctions became a founding principle. HIST 101 reviews changes in late Ottoman history by focusing on political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural transformations from a global perspective as the Ottoman history is an integral part of the global history.

The course follows a chronology of political events that underlies the whole narrative with the help of a timeline and employs abundant visual material. There are six exclusively thematic episodes focusing on education, arts & architecture, nationalism & identity construction, reform & religion, law & secularization, and finally social change in nineteenth century Ottoman history.
Course Methods and Techniques
Prerequisites and co-requisities None
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Asist Prof.Dr. İbrahim Vehbi Baysan
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Abu-Manneh, Butrus. “The Islamic Roots of the Gülhane Rescript”, Die Welt des Islams 34/2 (1994) Akiba, Jun, “The Local Councils as the Origin of the Parliamentary System in the Ottoman Empire”, Development of Parliamentarism in the Modern Islamic World, ed. S. Tsugitaka (Tokyo, 2009). Ardıç, Nurullah. Islam and the Politics of Secularism: The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century (Routledge, 2012) Aymes, Marc, Benjamin Gourisse, Elise Massicard (eds.) Order and Comprimise: Government Practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015) Bayly, C.A. The Birth of The Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). Bedir, Murtaza. “Fikih to Law: Secularization through Curriculum” Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2004), Çelik, Zeynep, The Remaking of Istanbul (California, Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 1993) Deringil, Selim. Well-Protect
Course Notes Attendance & Participation

Attendance means online or in-class presence of students during weekly lectures and discussion sections whereas participation means your active involvement in classes. Attendance is a must for all. You will get %10 of the total grade by attending the lectures and classes. As undergraduate teaching will be online during 2020-2021 Fall semester at IHU, we require your online visibility on camera. If your camera is off, that means you are absent. Student absences are excused only in cases of medical or family emergencies or religious holidays and only if students notify the instructor through a written statement and required official documents via e-mail.

Response Papers

HIST 101 students will write eight short papers. Some response papers will be written before the class based on the assigned readings and some others will be written after the class based on the lecture. In both cases, these papers are expected to be two pages long pieces which follow a standard format (double space, 12 font size, Times New Roman, and with a proper title)

Academic Integrity

Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, bound to disciplinary penalty, and above all unethical. Outside assistance is considered as a breach of academic honesty. For those who made plagiarism, strict and prescribed penalties will be applied.

Use of Mobile Devices

Use of mobile devices and social media during lectures and discussion sections are strongly discouraged. However, during discussion sections, if it is necessary to search the internet in order to reach knowledge related to the ongoing discussions in the class, then the use of laptops is encouraged.

Student Recording of Class

Video recording by students during the lectures is NOT allowed, while voice recording is allowed only for the purpose of re-listening to the lecture.

Special Accommodations

Please consult for any issue, ranging from reading materials to grading of response papers, first to Teaching Fellows. In addition to this, you can arrange an online meeting during my office hours (Tuesdays 10.00-12.00) by asking for an appointment at least three days before the office hours.

Reserve Clause
I reserve the right to make changes in the syllabus when necessary to meet the learning objectives, to compensate for missed classes or schedule changes, or for similar legitimate reasons. Students will be informed of any such changes to the syllabus in adequate time to adjust to them

Course Category
Social Sciences %100

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Mid-terms 1 % 20
Assignment 8 % 40
Attendance 1 % 10
Final examination 1 % 30
Total
11
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 14 4 56
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 14 3 42
Assignments 8 3 24
Presentation 2 4 8
Mid-terms 1 10 10
Final examination 1 10 10
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 5 150

 
Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 HIST 101 is designed for developing a better understanding not only of late Ottoman history but also of the broader issues of the globally formative period that the long nineteenth was. With this feature, the course extends the analytical thinking skills of students by examining various ways of approaching the same time period and improves their historical knowledge with regards to the socio-political realities of late Ottoman/Turkish history. With the extensive use of visual material, including pictures, charts, etchings and maps, students can better grasp the time, space, events, and actors of late Ottoman history. Therefore, having successfully completed the course, students will gain a sense of geography accompanying the historical narrative. As HIST 101 requires regularly reading a number of articles on weekly basis, those who take the course will gain the ability of self-discipline and time management as well as a strong commitment to deadlines. The course, with the assignment of response papers, will give students the opportunity of learning how to structure, formulate, argue and write simple and short pieces. Students are also expected to learn how to avoid verbiage and hot-air while writing a paper.

 
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 A Prelude to the Nineteenth Century Bayly, C.A. “Old Regimes and Archaic Globalization,” The Birth of The Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) pp. 23-48. Hanioğlu, Şükrü “The Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century,” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 6-26.
2 Responding to Challenges and the Age of Reform Hanioğlu, Şükrü “Initial Ottoman Responses to the Challenge of Modernity,” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 42-54. Hanioğlu, Şükrü “The Dawn of the Age of Reform,” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 55-71.
3 Reform and Religion in the Late Ottoman Empire Bayly, C.A. “Empires of Religion”, The Birth of The Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) pp. 325-51 Butrus Abu-Manneh, “The Islamic Roots of the Gülhane Rescript”, Die Welt des Islams 34/2 (1994) pp. 173-203.
4 The Tanzimat Era Hanioğlu, Şükrü “The Tanzimat Era,” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 72-88. Hanioğlu, Şükrü “The Tanzimat Era,” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 94-108.
5 Centers and Peripheries in the Age of Reform Yonca Köksal, “Imperial Center and Local Groups: Tanzimat Reforms in the Provinces of Edirne and Ankara,” New Perspectives on Turkey, 27 (Fall 2002) pp. 107-138. Akiba, Jun, “The Local Councils as the Origin of the Parliamentary System in the Ottoman Empire”, Development of Parliamentarism in the Modern Islamic World, ed. S. Tsugitaka (Tokyo, 2009) pp. 176-204.
6 Education as a Panacea Fortna, Benjamin, Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) pp. 1-41. Somel, S. Akşin, The Modernization of Public Education in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy and Discipline (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2001) pp. 1-13
7 The Twilight of the Tanzimat and the Hamidian Government Hanioğlu, Şükrü “The Twilight of the Tanzimat and the Hamidian Regime,” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 109-123. Hanioğlu, Şükrü “The Twilight of the Tanzimat and the Hamidian Regime,” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 123-149.
8 The Rise of Nationalisms and Identity Constructions Bayly, C.A. “Nation, Empire and Ethnicity, 1860-1900,” The Birth of The Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) pp. 199 – 227. 8.b. Deringil, Selim. Well-Protected Domains (London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998) pp. 16-43
9 Ottoman Economy in the Nineteenth Century 9.a. Genç, Mehmet. “State and the Economy in the Age of Reforms: Continuity and Change,” in Ottoman Past and Today’s Turkey (ed.) Kemal Karpat (Leiden: Brill, 2000) pp. 180-87. 9.b. Pamuk, Şevket. A Monatery History of the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. 205-24
10 Law, Modernity, and Secularization Bedir, Murtaza. “Fikih to Law: Secularization through Curriculum” Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2004), pp. 378-89 10.b. Rubin, Avi. Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) pp. 19-54
11 Space, Architecture and Identity in Change 11.a. Çelik, Zeynep, “Architectural Pluralism and the Search for a Style” in The Remaking of Istanbul (California, Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 1993) pp. 126-55 11.b. Ersoy, Ahmet. “Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Tanzimat Period” Muqarnas, Vol. 24 (2007) pp. 117-39. 
12 Social Change, Proper Behavior and the Issue of Being Civilized 12.a. Quataert, Donald. “Ottoman Society and Popular Culture,” The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) pp. 142-73. 12.b. Esenbel, Selcuk. “The anguish of civilized behavior: the use of western cultural forms in the everyday lives of the Meijii Japanese and the Ottoman Turks during the nineteenth century,” Japan Review 5 (1995) pp. 145-81.
13 Ottoman Intellectuals vis-à-vis Modernization and Westernization Bouquet, Olivier, “Is it Time to Stop Speaking about Ottoman Modernisation?” in Order and Comprimise: Government Practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century, (eds.) Marc Aymes, Benjamin Gourisse, Elise Massicard (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015) pp. 45-67. 13.b. Şentürk, Recep. “Intellectual Dependency: Late Ottoman Intellectuals between Fiqh and Social Science”, Die Welt des Islams, Vol. 47, No. 3-4. (2007) pp. 283-318.
14 Politics, Ideology and Identity in Transition to the Republic 14.a. Hanioğlu, Şükrü “From Revolution to Imperial Collapse: The Longest Decade of the Late Ottoman Empire,” A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 150-177. 14.b. Zürcher, Eric-Jan. “Ottoman sources of Kemalist thought” in Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy, Elizabeth Özdalga (ed.) (London: Routledge, 2005) pp. 13-24.

 
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 P13 P14 P15 P16 P17
All 4 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 5
C1 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 5

  Contribution: 1: Very Slight 2:Slight 3:Moderate 4:Significant 5:Very Significant