İslam Medeniyeti (Journal of Islamic Civilization, JIC) is an Islam-based Turkish periodical published by the association of Higher Islamic Institutes’ students and alumni between 1967 and 1982. It was initially intended to be a popular Islamic monthly comprising short (2-7 pages) articles along with poems and topical news on every issue. Authors who regularly contributed to the journal were mostly students, alumni, or professors of Higher Islamic Institutes founded in the 1960s and the 1970s in different parts of Turkey. Along with its regular contributors, the JIC published articles and poems of significant figures of the Islamic intellectual movement in Turkey such as Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Nurettin Topçu, Ali Ulvi Kurucu, Said Çekmegil, Mahir İz, Osman Turan, Mehmet Aydın and Ali Bulaç. Besides, translated articles from non-Turkish Muslim intellectuals as well as non-Muslim European intellectuals appeared on almost every issue of the journal. The content of the journal informed not only religious policies but also social ones as these people swarmed the Diyanet (Directorate of Religious Affairs), civil bureaucracy and actively participated in the Islamic political movement. The JIC could be seen as the platform within which the ruling Justice and Development Party’s current policies were first articulated, especially concerning the revival of Islamic civilization through education reforms and transfer of funds to civil initiatives, associations, and endowments. Given that it was affiliated with a religious educational institution, it is not surprising that Islamic education and the status of Islamic sciences were among the most recurrent issues in the journal. In addition, its articles point out important and interesting observations concerning Orientalism as an academic discipline, the East-West dichotomy, and Muslims’ position within these debates. The concept of “Islamic civilization”, which became the exact title of the journal, acquired its significance in these debates where the authors respond to Orientalist works and ideas as well as Western-oriented secular modernization.