Information Package / Course Catalogue
Course Structure Diagram
1. Semester
Course Course Type ECTS
Required 1 Required 13
Elective 1 Area Elective 15
Total ECTS   28
Course Course Type Theory Prt. ECTS
Fields of Specialization I
UZM701
Required 8 0 8
Scientific Research Methods and Ethics
İST544
Required 3 0 5
Course Course Type Theory Prt. ECTS
Prosody, Rhyme, and Literary Devices
İST502
Area Elective 3 0 5
Studies on Manuscripts
İST503
Area Elective 3 0 5
Ottoman Literary Texts
İST504
Area Elective 3 0 5
Religious Content in Classical Poetry
İST506
Area Elective 3 0 5
Art of the Great Seljuk Period
İST508
Area Elective 3 0 5
Art of the Principalities Period
İST510
Area Elective 3 0 5
Pre-Islamic Turkic Art
İST512
Area Elective 3 0 5
Art History Concepts
İST514
Area Elective 3 0 5
Knowledge of Motifs and Patterns in Turkish-Islamic Arts
İST516
Area Elective 3 0 5
Sources For the History of Turkish-Islamic Arts
İST518
Area Elective 3 0 5
The Tradition and Practices of Mosque Music
İST520
Area Elective 3 0 5
Artificial Intelligence and Music Production in Research on Religious Music
İST522
Area Elective 3 0 5
Belief, Ritual, and Music in Ancient Anatolia
İST524
Area Elective 3 0 5
Sound and Music in Sacred Spaces
İST526
Area Elective 3 0 5
The Relationship Between the Dervish Lodge (tekke) and Music
İST528
Area Elective 3 0 5
Forms of Turkish Religious Music
İST530
Area Elective 3 0 5
Sources of Turkish Music
İST532
Area Elective 3 0 5
Islamic Historiography and Research Methods
İST534
Area Elective 3 0 5
Readings in Classical Arabic Texts on Islamic History
İST536
Area Elective 3 0 5
The Life and Era of the Prophet
İST538
Area Elective 3 0 5
The Early Islamic Conquests
İST540
Area Elective 3 0 5
State, Society, and Culture During the Abbasid Period
İST542
Area Elective 3 0 5
2. Semester
Course Course Type ECTS
Required 2 Required 12
Elective 1 Area Elective 20
Total ECTS   32
Course Course Type Theory Prt. ECTS
Fields of Specialization II
UZM702
Required 8 0 8
Seminar
SEM702
Required 0 2 4
Course Course Type Theory Prt. ECTS
Turkic-Islamic Literature: Concepts and Themes
İST500
Area Elective 3 0 5
Turkic-Islamic Literature: Forms and Genres
İST501
Area Elective 3 0 5
Biographical Dictionaries of Poets
İST505
Area Elective 3 0 5
History of Early-Period Turco-Islamic Arts
İST507
Area Elective 3 0 5
Aesthetic Analysis of Inscriptions and Calligraphic Works
İST509
Area Elective 3 0 5
Art of the Anatolian Seljuk Period
İST511
Area Elective 3 0 5
Early Period Ottoman Art
İST513
Area Elective 3 0 5
Traditional Turkish Arts
İST515
Area Elective 3 0 5
Building Types in Turkish Architecture
İST517
Area Elective 3 0 5
Religious Music and Ritual in Antiquity
İST519
Area Elective 3 0 5
Religious Musical Instruments: Archaeology, Iconography, and Symbolism
İST521
Area Elective 3 0 5
Archaeology of Religious Music: Sources and Methods
İST523
Area Elective 3 0 5
Religious Music Cultures in Late Antiquity
İST525
Area Elective 3 0 5
Ottoman-Turkish Musical Texts
İST527
Area Elective 3 0 5
Theoarchaeology and Religious Music
İST529
Area Elective 3 0 5
Repertoire and Theory of Turkish Religious Music
İST531
Area Elective 3 0 5
History and Culture of Turkish Music
İST533
Area Elective 3 0 5
Classical Islamic History Sources and Source Criticism
İST535
Area Elective 3 0 5
Pre-Islamic Arabia
İST537
Area Elective 3 0 5
Institutions in the Early Islamic Period
İST539
Area Elective 3 0 5
State, Society, and Culture in the Umayyad Period
İST541
Area Elective 3 0 5
History of the Islamic City
İST543
Area Elective 3 0 5
3. Semester
Course Course Type ECTS
Required 3 Required 30
Total ECTS   30
Course Course Type Theory Prt. ECTS
Thesis Study I
TEZ701
Required 0 1 22
Fields of Specialization III
UZM703
Required 8 0 8
4. Semester
Course Course Type ECTS
Required 4 Required 30
Total ECTS   30
Course Course Type Theory Prt. ECTS
Thesis Study II
TEZ702
Required 0 1 22
Fields of Specialization IV
UZM704
Required 8 0 8
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