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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D.) BUSE AKSARAY ERKMAN
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The objective of this course is to identify the establishment and development processes of law, today’s legal institutions, the rules of law in the past and their reflections in our era, Turkish legal systems before and after Islam, and the reflections of legal institutions and laws which were carried by these systems.
Course Content The course unit deals with the origin and historical development of law, all kinds of legal persons and institutions, their counterparts in history, characteristics and effects especially in the field of legislature, executive and judiciary, Turkish legal system and its characteristics before and after Islam, Islamic Law and Sultanic Law in the Ottoman Period, structure and functioning of the state, private and public law in Islamic and Turkish legal history, foundations, slaves, non-moslems in Ottoman law and Ottoman law after the Tanzimat period.

Weekly Course Subjects

1The importance of legal history as a field of science, its subjects, periods of Turkish legal history, Pre-Islamic Period of Turkish Legal History
2Turkish law after Islam
3The distinction between Islamic and sultanic laws in Islamic and Ottoman legal systems and their significance
4Structure and functioning of state in Islamic and Ottoman legal systems
5Ottoman Public Law (Constitutional and Administrative Law, Criminal Law and procedural law)
6Ottoman Private Law (Civil law- persons, family, inheritance and property law, law of oblifgations, commercial law)
7Ottoman legislation and practices
8Ottoman Judicial System and examples of practices
9Mid-term exam
10Ottoman land regime
11Slaves in Ottoman Law, the Legal Status of Non-Moslem Citizens
12Ottoman Law during and after the Tanzimat period
13Westernization and its results in Ottoman Law
14Ottoman Law and legal theories in the decleration period of Republic.

Resources

1-Prof. Dr. Coşkun Üçok - Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mumcu - Prof. Dr. Gülnihal Bozkurt, Türk Hukuk Tarihi, Turhan Kitabevi