TAR350

School of Humanities \ History

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Elective

Turkish

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History department; all departments

• Seljuk historiography in the world and in Turkey, its beginnings and development • Sources of the History of the Seljuks of Turkey and modern research • Conquest of Anatolia and related problems (conquest operations and stages, results) • Establishment and development of the Seljuk State of Turkey, its periods • Relations with Byzantium, Ayyubid and other states • Social and economic structure and life, • Demographic structure • Cultural and religious life

Mehmet Altay Köymen, History of the Great Seljuk Empire, Foundation Period I, Ankara 1979 Osman Turan, History of the Seljuks and Turkish-Islamic Civilization, Ankara 1965

• To teach the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia, to introduce its subject, fields and problems. • To introduce the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia in the world and in Turkey from the beginning to the present. • To teach the basic course of the Seljuk history of Anatolia, its stages, its legacy to later periods and its effects. • To teach the evaluation of a history text on the Seljuk history of Anatolia.

1. Understanding the methods of Seljuk history from the past to the present, understanding its place and value in the general line of Turkish history.
2. Being able to see and evaluate its role in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire on the stage of history.
3. Understanding its place and importance in the formation of Turkish cultural history.
4. Gaining the ability to objectively understand, analyze and evaluate historical events.

Week 1: Anatolia before the Turks: Byzantium, conquests, settlement
Week 2: Establishment and development of the Seljuk State of Turkey (1098-1107)
Week 3: Rise and peak of the Seljuks of Turkey (1205-1243)
Week 4: Arrival of the Mongols, Battle of Kösedağ and its results
Week 5: Mongol domination in Anatolia, new situation and structuring, internal struggles
Week 6: Pervane Muineddin Süleyman and his period
Week 7: MIDTERM EXAM
Week 8: Anatolia's Turkey formation: Political, ethnic, social, cultural and religious revolution: Non-Muslims, Muslims
Week 9: Cities, society and economy: Production, domestic and foreign trade, land and tax system
Week 10: Political, administrative, military institutions
Week 11: Culture, religion, science, thought, art, architecture
Week 12: The formation period of the principalities and the new order of Anatolia, the rise of Turkish, Islam, Christianity etc. Presentations

• Participation 10 %
• Presentation 15 %
• Midterm Exam 25 %
• Final 50 %