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Course Details
KTO KARATAY UNIVERSITY
İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi
Programme of International Trade and Logistics (English)
Course Details
Course Code Course Name Year Period Semester T+A+L Credit ECTS
99900015 Vision of Civilization Envision and Ahi Order 2023 Autumn 1 4+0+0 4 4
Course Type Compulsory
Course Cycle Bachelor's (First Cycle) (TQF-HE: Level 6 / QF-EHEA: Level 1 / EQF-LLL: Level 6)
Course Language Turkish
Methods and Techniques -
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Prerequisites -
Coordinator Prof. Ömer AKDAĞ
Instructor(s) Prof. Ömer AKDAĞ
Instructor Assistant(s) -
Course Instructor(s)
Name and Surname Room E-Mail Address Internal Meeting Hours
Prof. Caner ARABACI C-233 [email protected] 7472 Wednesday
14.00-15.00
Prof. Hüsamettin ERDEM C-233 [email protected] 7472 Wednesday
14.00-15.00
Course Content
A brief overview of Karatay Madrasah, its teaching staff, endowment deed, and architectural features. Concepts of civilization and culture, fundamental elements that prepare the way for the birth of civilization. The basic sources of Turkish-Islamic civilization, the founding elements of Turkish-Islamic civilization, and some reflections of Turkish-Islamic civilization.
Objectives of the Course
To create a consciousness that reflects on and idealizes serving all of humanity on the common ground of human values, justice, dynamism, and shared experience with communities of different cultures and beliefs, by updating the values our nation, the founder of a great civilization, places on humanity, and producing.

To introduce Celaleddin Karatay, the founder of the Karatay Madrasa, the great Turkish statesman who inspired the name of our university, and the Karatay Madrasa as a center of knowledge and wisdom, reminding us that we are members of a deep-rooted and profound civilization with the understanding of "From Madrasa to University."

To instill behaviors belonging to the Ahi Brotherhood, one of the fundamental values of the Turkish nation, such as professional diligence, honesty in commercial dealings, respect for rights and laws, compassion, developing a sense of cooperation, being cheerful, and having self-confidence.
Contribution of the Course to Field Teaching
Basic Vocational Courses
Specialization / Field Courses
Support Courses X
Transferable Skills Courses
Humanities, Communication and Management Skills Courses
Relationships between Course Learning Outcomes and Program Outcomes
Relationship Levels
Lowest Low Medium High Highest
1 2 3 4 5
# Program Learning Outcomes Level
P14 To be able to have strategic management skills to make suggestions on issues such as goals, objectives, mission, vision, target market, positioning, business portfolio design, market and marketing performance measurement related to the organization and to make medium and long-term plans related to these suggestions. 4
P12 To be able to act with moral values and professional responsibility. 5
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week Topics
1 Basic elements that prepared the birth of civilization. (human, human and environment, human and language, human and science, tolerance) and factors affecting the birth of civilization. (Religion and civilization, science and civilization, wisdom and
2 Islam and peace, Islam and dynamism, Culture and civilization concepts, the role of Islam in the formation of Western civilization
3 Dynamism in Islamic Civilization.
4 Islam and peace
5 Individual, Society and State at the Birth of Civilization, Relation Between Art and Civilization
6 The Basics on Which Civilization Envision is Based, Hz. Adem, the Founder of Civilization, and Civilization Envision, Model Man in Civilization Envision; Hz. Mohammed
7 Karatay Madrasa and its foundation, Celaleddin Karatay and his political career
8 Ahi order and Ahi Evran, Ahi system
9 Dimensions of the Ahi System
10 Economic structure and Ombudsman in the Ahi system
11 Fütüvvetnames, Ahi Identity and Model Person
12 Education in Ahi's Zawiyas, Ahi and Public Education
13 Shed Ceremony and Ahi Order in Our Literature
14 Legitimate Earnings, Morality, Ahi Order and Today
Textbook or Material
Resources Ömer AKDAĞ-Meltem KURTULUŞ (Editors), Ahilik and Professional Ethics, KTO Karatay University Publications, Konya 2018.
Ömer Faruk ERDEM-Murat AYVACI, Civilization Imagination and Karatay Madrasa, KTO Karatay University Publications, Konya 1918.
Evaluation Method and Passing Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Attendance - -
Laboratory - -
Practice - -
Field Study - -
Course Specific Internship (If Any) - -
Homework - -
Presentation - -
Projects - -
Seminar - -
Quiz - -
Listening - -
Midterms 1 40 (%)
Final Exam 1 60 (%)
Total 100 (%)
ECTS / Working Load Table
Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Week Number and Time 14 4 56
Out-of-Class Study Time (Pre-study, Library, Reinforcement) 14 1 14
Midterms 1 25 25
Quiz 0 0 0
Homework 0 0 0
Practice 0 0 0
Laboratory 0 0 0
Project 0 0 0
Workshop 0 0 0
Presentation/Seminar Preparation 0 0 0
Fieldwork 0 0 0
Final Exam 1 25 25
Other 0 0 0
Total Work Load: 120
Total Work Load / 30 4
Course ECTS Credits: 4