MA in History (in English)
The History MA
The History Master’s Program at IHU was approved by YÖK in 2022, and received its first crop of students in Fall 2023. In contrast to our Turkish or Middle East Studies MA Programs, MAHIST is relatively pure History, and basically aims at providing solid preparation for a History PhD. Thus (a) for Turkish citizens, it proposes to re-integrate their undergraduate knowledge of Ottoman and Turkish history by putting it in a universal, comparative context. (b) For international students from the Middle East, the rest of Asia or other Islamic countries, it offers a compact body of instruction in Ottoman and Turkish history which they may not be able to access in their own countries. (c) For international students from the West, and especially from the US or the UK, who may be in the process of pursuing PhD’s in Islamic, Middle Eastern, Turkish or Ottoman History in their own countries, it opens a window of opportunity involving spending two years in Istanbul and at IHU to take lots of specialized courses in all these fields, including their relevant research languages, for tuition fees and other living costs that are far lower than in Europe or America.
Esteemed Academics
One-on-One Education
Boutique University
Student-Centered Approach
On-Campus Dormitories for Female and Male Students
Sports Center
Supportive Research and Project Ecosystem
Head of The Department:
Associate Professor Günhan Börekçi
Purposes of the Program:
The two-year History MA Program (with thesis) is set up in the following way:
- 8 academic courses in all
2 required courses, to be taken as 1+1 in the first year
HIST 505 HIST 506
6 departmental electives, without any sub-conditions - in addition, two YÖK-required seminars, also to be taken in the first year
HIST 500 HIST 501 - plus an MA thesis of around 70 pages (as a rough guideline), to be researched and written, in the framework of HIST 599, over the entire second year of the program
The following lesson plan is for informational purposes only. Click here to access the Bologna information.
Click here to access the course information package.
| IBN HALDUN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES HISTORY (ENGLISH) WITH THESIS PROGRAM COURSE PLAN | |||||
| I. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| HIST 500 | MA Pro-Seminar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| HIST 505 | World Historiography I | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Language Courses (TUR …) | |||||
| Total Credit | 12 | 35 | |||
| II. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| HIST 501 | Academic Research Methods and Publication Ethics | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| HIST 506 | World Historiography II | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST… | Departmental Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Language Courses (TUR …) | |||||
| Total Credit | 12 | 35 | |||
| III. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| HIST 599 | Master's Thesis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Total Credit | 0 | 30 | |||
| IV. Semester | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| HIST 599 | Master's Thesis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Total Credit | 0 | 30 | |||
| Overall Total Credit | 24 | 130 | |||
| COMPULSORY COURSES | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| HIST 500 | MA Pro-Seminar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| HIST 501 | Academic Research Methods and Publication Ethics | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| HIST 505 | World Historiography I | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 506 | World Historiography II | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIVE COURSES | |||||
| Course Code | Course Name | Hours | Credit | ECTS | |
| T | U | ||||
| Language Courses | |||||
| ARA 501C | Basic Arabic I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| ARA 502C | Basic Arabic II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| ARA 503C | Intermediate Arabic I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| ARA 504C | Intermediate Arabic II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| ARA 507C | Intensive Basic Arabic | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| ARA 508C | Intensive Intermediate Arabic | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| PERS 501C | Basic Persian I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| PERS 502C | Basic Persian II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| PERS 503C | Intermediate Persian I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| PERS 504C | Intermediate Persian II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| PERS 507C | Intensive Basic Persian | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| PERS 508C | Intensive Intermediate Persian | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| TLL 501C | Basic Ottoman Turkish | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 502C | Intermediate Ottoman Turkish | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 503C | Advanced Ottoman Turkish I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 504C | Advanced Ottoman Turkish II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 505C | Ottoman Paleography and Diplomatica | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 506C | Advanced Readings in Ottoman Historical Texts | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TLL 507C | Intensive Basic Ottoman Turkish | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| TLL 508C | Intensive Intermediate Ottoman Turkish | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| TUR 501C | Basic Modern Turkish I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 502C | Basic Modern Turkish II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 503C | Intermediate Modern Turkish I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 504C | Intermediate Modern Turkish II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 505C | Advanced Readings in Modern Turkish I | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 506C | Advanced Readings in Modern Turkish II | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| TUR 507C | Intensive Basic Modern Turkish | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| TUR 508C | Intensive Intermediate Modern Turkish | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| History | |||||
| HIST 503 | World History I | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 504 | World History II | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 507 | Readings in Historical Thought | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 508 | Oral History and Social Memory | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 509 | Introduction to Orientalism and Oriental Studies | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 511 | Early Islamic History: A Survey (to AD 1100) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 512 | Islamic History: The Middle Period (c.945-1500) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 513 | History of Islamic Political Thought | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 514 | Three Gunpowder Empires | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 515 | History of the Modern Middle East (to the 1920s) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 516 | History of the Contemporary Middle East (from the 1920s) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 517 | Judaism and Christianity | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 519 | Mediterranean Cities | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 520 | Construction and Formation of Europe | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 521 | Medieval Anatolia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 523 | Introduction to the History of Byzantium (400-1453) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 526 | Social and Economic History of Middle Ages | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 528 | Balkans and the Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 530 | Nations and Borders in the Middle East, Balkans, and Caucasia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 531 | History of Ottoman Institutions | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 532 | History of Ottoman Political Thought | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 533 | Religion in the Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 536 | History of a City II: Ottoman Istanbul, 1450-1900 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 537 | History of Education in Islam | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 538 | Introduction to Islamic and Ottoman Material Culture | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 539 | Reading Evliya Çelebi | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 540 | Ordinary People and Daily Life in the Late Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 541 | Ottoman History I, 1300-1600 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 542 | Frontier Societies and Early Ottoman Polity | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 551 | Ottoman History II, 1600-1800 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 553 | Ottoman Women, c.1300-1900 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 561 | Ottoman History III, 1789-1908 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 562 | Modernization and Reform in the Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 563 | Eastern Question 1768-1923 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 564 | Nationalist Projects in Southeastern European History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 571 | From “Far Asia” to the Mediterranean: Turkish History, Turkey’s History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 572 | From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Nation-State | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 573 | Proto-Fascism in Europe and the Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 574 | Sources and Methods for the History of Modern Turkey I (1908-1950) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 575 | Sources and Methods for the History of Modern Turkey II (1945-2002) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 579 | Minority Problems in Modern Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 581 | Environmental History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 591 | History of Russia I: Tsaris Period (17th Century to 1914/17) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 593 | Historical Marxism I: (19th Century Socialism) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 594 | Historical Marxism II: Communism and Afterwards | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 596 | Iran and Shiism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 597 | History of Modern Iran | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 602 | Ottoman Historians and Chroniclers | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 603 | Research Seminar in Islamic and Ottoman Legal Culture | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 604 | Research Seminar in Islamic and Ottoman Material Culture | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 639 | Research Seminar on Evliya Çelebi | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 641 | Research Seminar for Ottoman History, 1300-1600 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 651 | Research Seminar for Ottoman History, 1600-1800 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| HIST 661 | Research Seminar for Ottoman History, 1789-1908 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 662 | Muslim Women Writers in the Late Ottoman Empire (1789-1908) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 663 | The Nineteenth Century Press and Periodicals in the Ottoman Empire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 672 | Texts and Constructions of National Memory I: Varieties of Early Turkish Nationalism | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 673 | Texts and Constructions of National Memory II: Reading the Republican Historians | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 681 | Research Seminar for Modern Turkish History I (1908-1950) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 682 | Research Seminar for Modern Turkish History II (1945-2002) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 705 | Literature Survey: Historiography | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 726 | Literature Survey: The Middle Ages in Europe | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 727 | Literature Survey: The Early Modern Era | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 728 | Literature Survey: Modern and Contemporary History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 731 | Literature Survey: Modern Balkan History, 1800 to the Present | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 736 | Literature Survey: Inner Asian and Turkic History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 741 | Literature Survey: Ottoman History, 1300-1600 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 751 | Literature Survey: Ottoman History, 1600-1800 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 761 | Literature Survey: Ottoman-Turkish History, 1789-1908 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 771 | Literature Survey: Recent Turkish History, 1908 to the Present | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| HIST 791 | Literature Survey: Cultural History | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |