İktibas dergisinde ümmet

This study focuses on the community project in İktibas journal, which defines itself as radical Islamist. It would be a proper choice to examine this community project under the headline of ummahism. Just like the most similar community project of nationalism, ummahism arises from the need and search for a new community in the modern world. Again like nationalism, ummahism has three main goals: defining the community, distinguishing the other, and describing the state. Therefore, this study will examine how the concept of the ummah as a community is perceived, how the other of ummah is determined, and what kind of a state this ummahist community project was developed to constitute a ground for. İktibas is chosen as the core of this study; because, its founder Ercümend Özkan is the first radical Islamist throughout the Turkish Republican history who carried out a series of actions that aimed at overthrowing the regime and reestablishing the caliphate. For the same reason, only the issues of the journal published when Özkan was alive (1-193) were included in the scope of the study. Key Words: İktibas, Ummah, Nation, Us versus Other, Islamic State, Democracy, Laicism, Contemporary Islamic Political Thought