The reception of the concept of civilization within the Islamic Intellectual Field (IIF) has been of various types. Critical positions that directly oppose the concept itself in contemporary Islamic thought are one of these types. If it is possible to label this critical position as “anticivilizationism”, İsmet Özel can be one of the thinkers within the IIF who approaches the concept of civilization highly critical. İsmet Özel's interesting life story, in which he evolved from a communist poet and writer to an “Islamist” thinker as he names it, is worth examining at the intellectual level. Considering his sort of popularity in public discussions as a public intellectual figure, Özel’s political thought may locate a sui-generis line within the IIF. This presentation will be based on Özel's book Three Problems: Technique, Civilization, Alienation - Introduction to the Muslim Way of Thinking published in 1978 as proposing that it was one of the most attentive anti-civilizationist intellectual-political objection in the Islamic Intellectual field. Through the main theses of the book, the presentation tries to explain Özel's anti-civilizationism. As a conceptual proposal, the presentation will foreground the instrumental compatibility of Özel's critique of civilization with the conceptualization of Islamic decolonial thought. Based on recent literature on decoloniality, this paper argues that Özel's proposal to establish a Muslim society is offered as a form of "living decolonially," which refers to thinking and acting in ways that break free from the hegemony of Western knowledges and perspectives where everyday practices and lifestyles are shaped in accordance with Islamic standards of morality and through conscious efforts to “delink” from such Western standards. By drawing attention to the similarities of contemporary Islamic political thought in Turkey with the approaches of "decoloniality" theory, this proposal tries to be both an instrumental contribution to the theory itself and a small introduction of a new framework to the research field on Islamism in Turkey.