An objection from within: the contestation of <i>İktibas</i> journal to Islamic civilizationist discourse

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">This article explores the objection of&nbsp;</span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">İktibas</i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">&nbsp;journal to the conceptualization of Islamic Civilization within the Islamic intellectual field in Turkey. It identifies that&nbsp;</span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">İktibas</i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">&nbsp;grounds its critique on three interrelated claims: that civilization, as a Western historical product, cannot be made compatible with Islam by mere prefixation; that civilizationism masks colonial domination; and that recent Islamic civilizational politics functions as a populist ruse. Considering these three claims, this article discusses&nbsp;</span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">İktibas</i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">’s contestation in relation with a struggle for epistemic delinking from Western hegemony, not only in content but also in form.</span>