INTELLECTUAL ISLAMISM AS A CRITIQUE OF COLONIALITY IN TURKEY: TEXTS OF SEZAİ KARAKOÇ AND İSMET ÖZEL

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2026-4-27

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Ateş, Enes

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This thesis examines two thinkers based on Islam-based political thought production in Turkey through the concept of the “Islamic Intellectual Field” (IIF), acknowledging that this field comprises conflicting, clashing, or mutually supporting trends. Based on this premise and the assertion that the IIF holds the potential for political theory, the study focuses on a framework centered on the “critique of coloniality.” It develops this framework by instrumentally and analytically utilizing the decoloniality approach, proposing two novel conceptual frameworks: “Islamic decoloniality” and the “triad of coloniality.” This theoretical lens is applied to the works of two prominent Islamic intellectuals: Sezai Karakoç and İsmet Özel. These thinkers were selected specifically for their divergent approaches to the concept of civilization; Karakoç is categorized under civilizational Islamism, whereas Özel is identified with anti-civilizational Islamism. Utilizing the methodology of intellectual history to selectively analyze their texts, the thesis concludes that both figures provide the intellectual foundations that inform and sustain contemporary civilizational (Karakoç) and nationalist (Özel) trajectories in Turkey.

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Islamic Intellectual Field, Civilization, Sezai Karakoç, İsmet Özel, Decoloniality

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/119122

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis