This article responds to Acharya’s call to integrate deep area studies knowledge and methods into a global IR by presenting the findings of an empirical enquiry into the concept of civilization in Turkish Islamist thought. It delves into primary and secondary sources, in English and Turkish and in particular into the works of a number of emblematic Islamist thinkers in Republican (post-1923) Turkey, to show that their approach to ‘Islamic civilization’ is defined through nineteenth century, modern concepts, shared with so-called Western thinkers and contexts. The conclusions of the study constitute the basis for a critique of the culturalist perspective in IR which treats cultural and civilizational differences as foundational or even immutable. The article posits, instead, that a truly global IR can only be developed if it is underpinned by the concepts of global modernity and global history (as proposed by Buzan and Lawson, among other IR theorists and historians), across an imagined ‘East’ and ‘West’.

本文通过提出对土耳其伊斯兰思想中的文明概念进行实证研究的结果，回应了Acharya呼吁将深度研究知识和方法整合到全球IR中的呼吁。它深入研究了英语和土耳其语的主要和次要资源，尤其是共和党（1923年后）在土耳其的一些具有象征意义的伊斯兰思想家的著作，以表明他们对“伊斯兰文明”的定义是在19世纪之前定义的，与所谓的西方思想家和环境共享的现代概念。该研究的结论构成了对IR中文化主义观点进行批判的基础，该观点将文化和文明差异视为基础甚至是不变的。相反，该文章认为，