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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 Hybrid
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
Brief information on the Karatay Madrasa, its teaching staff, its endowment charter, and its architectural features. Concepts of civilization and culture; fundamental elements paving the way for the emergence of civilization. Foundational sources and constituent elements of Turkic-Islamic civilization; certain reflections of Turkic-Islamic civilization.
Objectives of the Course
To make a consciousness in order to help all the people around the word by updating the terms such as appreciation of humanity of our nation, establishing a great civilization, and its daintiness about justice, dinamism, and experience of living with multi cultures together. To remember and remind ourselves being a member of a great civilization by introducing Madrasah(Muslim teological school) of Karatay and the great Turkish Statesman ‘Celaleddin Karatay', inspiration of our university after his name.
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.
Ömer Faruk ERDEM, Medeniyet Tasavvuru ve Karatay Medresesi, Karatay Üniversitesi Yayınları, Konya 2016
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 3 42
Midterms 1 10 10
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 12 12
Other 0 0 0
Total Work Load: 120
Total Work Load / 30 4
Course ECTS Credits: 4