The History program aims to create a new generation of Arab researchers in the field of Arab and Islamic History, to build
on the experience accumulated by prominent professors in the field of
historical studies from Arab and Western universities. This program
makes recourse to a multiplicity of new western theories in the field of
historical research. The program aims to fathom the depths of the
history of economic, political, social and intellectual structures in
Arab countries, while revisiting historical events with the goal of
reinterpretation based on new research methodologies. The program
accords particular importance to the study of Arab history within the
various regional and international processes. It also seeks to step into
new territory in offering the study of current or immediate history. In
all it proposes to do, the program aims to impress on students the
necessity of diversifying news sources through exposure to various
Arabic and western archives. This exposure to the history of structures
and relational history will familiarize students with modern schools of
history and will enable them to write Arab history in a new manner,
which contributes to overcoming tradition and focusing on new
methodological frameworks.
History Program Learning Outcomes:
1. Knowledge
of the most important trends that have defined historical writing in
the Arab world and understanding the methods of historical writing and
its difficulties in relation with cultural and political conditions of
the Arab countries.
2. An enhanced
view of history and representations of Muslim societies as knowledge of
history associated with the development of these communities.
3. The
ability to approach cross-disciplinarity and comparison as a tool to
understand the issues related to the Arab communities by recognizing
other fields of knowledge and historical experiences.
4. Acquiring analysis and synthesis skills and not to rely on rumination and restore the past by traditional methods.
5. The
ability to write research papers and ensuring scientific documentation
and recognizing the principle of shared information and individual and
critical analysis.
6. The ability to think critically in dealing with local, regional and international historical phenomena.
7. The
ability to work in a team and to tolerate different opinions and
defending personal opinions using mental arguments and evidence.
The ability to perform oral presentations and participate in scientific debates.
9. Ability
to conduct research from reference books and scientific dictionaries as
well as reading texts and written documents related to the Arab world.
10. Understanding basic principles in Paleography to be able to read the archival documents.
11. Strengthen foreign languages, both support languages (Turkish, Persian) or research languages (English and French).
12. Dealing
strictly with time frames and making different assumptions and
assignments (research papers) within the time limits prescribed.
13. Taking
into account the ethical aspects when conducting research papers in
correspondence with university ethics in scientific research.
14. The
use of information technology in historical research both in terms of
information gathering and at the level of quantitative and qualitative
analysis.
