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Thesis Type: Doctorate
Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi University, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Turkey
Approval Date: 2010
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: Betül CAN
Supervisor: MUSA YILDIZ
Abstract:This study, from the reign of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror prior to the Tanzimat, aims to deal with the methods and books used in the education of the Arabic language and to state the place of Arabic in the curriculum in the Ottoman madrasas, and in this context, to determine the position of Arabic in the education of Ottoman madrasas. This study is based on browsing written sources, i.e. literature. The experimental method used in this study is historical model. With this model, a particular event in the past and its influence on the present day are examined. Written sources such as books, journals, archival documents, offical correspondence, contracts compose the data of historical researches. Since the mentioned study based on historical data is intended for making inferences, using this method is preferred. The type of this study is descriptive. Descriptive studies are the ones which aim to describe a situation existing in the past or in the present as it was or it is. Likewise, in this study, the madrasa, an institution existed in the past, and its education are tried to be reflected as they were. The study population of this research consists of the educational system of madrasas which were the institutions of higher education during the period from the reign of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror (1451) prior to the declaration of the Tanzimat (1839). Described as the part of the study population, the sample of the research is mainly composed of Arabic education in these madrasas. In this study, upon using cluster sampling from the sampling techniques, Arabic education is divided into three groups, morphology (sarf), syntax (nahiv) and rhetoric (belâgat). In this research which is a qualitative study, data acquisition methods, used in the qualitative studies as data sources, such as document collection and its analysis, the survey and the evaluation of the work pertaining to this area are applied. As the data of this research is qualitative, documentary survey is used as data collection techniques. In this study, upon surveying archival documents, deeds of endowments (vakfiye), legal codes (kanunnâme), autobiographical notes, madrasa certifications (icâzetnâme), curriculums related to this topic; viii and the books, dictionaries, articles, symposium declarations published in a variety of languages, mainly in Turkish, Arabic, Ottoman, English and French; and unpublished master and doctorate theses upon the madrasa education; pertaining to morphology (sarf), syntax (nahiv) and rhetoric (belâgat) in Arabic, used in the madrasas in the aforementioned period are examined. In order to analyse the data, descriptive analysis method from the qualitative analysis tecniques is applied. Studies indicate that the Arabic language, in the Ottoman madrasas, had a position to prepare the students for the religious sciences and it was taught so as to comprehend the religious texts. For this purpose, it is determined that the language education mainly based on the grammatical rules and texts was implemented. In the light of this information, it is proposed that whilst carrying out the modern education methods, the classical Arabic grammar books used by the Ottoman scholars be applied. Key Words: Ottoman Education System, Madrasas, Arabic Language Education, Teaching Methods, Curriculums, Arabic Grammar Books.