Balıkesir University

The Bachelor of Islamic History and Islamic Arts at Marmara University is a multidisciplinary undergraduate program housed within the Faculty of Theology. The curriculum spans approximately 1,450 years of Islamic history and covers key political, social, cultural, literary, and artistic developments of the Muslim world. Students take courses organized through four main departments: Islamic History, Turkish-Islamic Arts History, Turkish-Islamic Literature, and Turkish Religious Music. The program provides a broad foundation in the historical and chronological development of Islam, training students to read archival documents and analyze a diverse range of Islamic art forms such as poetry, music, and literature. Graduates gain the ability to approach historical phenomena with critical and systematic methods, and are prepared for careers in education, cultural institutions, archives, museums, arts management, or further academic research. The program fosters critical comprehension of Turkey’s and the wider Islamic world’s cultural heritage, and emphasizes skills in research, analysis, writing, and the use of historical resources and methodologies.