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Islamic Studies in Turkey
Institutionally, higher education in Turkey is modelled on Western, today predominantly US-American lines. The standard degree is the BA after four years of instruction at a department that is part of a faculty. Higher degrees are the master (yüksek lisans) and the doctoral degree obtained from university institutes without affiliation to a faculty, with regard to the disciplines here discussed, typically those of Social Sciences. Higher education as practiced in the Ottoman medrese-system was abolished in 1925 with the “Law on the Unification of Education” (Tevhid-i Tedrisat Kanunu) enjoying constitutional protection until today. This has lead to a reconfiguration of Islamic studies that is informed by the established academic canon of disciplines on the one hand, and by the fact that parts of the field are regarded as Turkey’s own and consequently given high priority.
 Islamic Studies
Disciplines
Universities
Research Institutes and Foundations
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