Walaa Quisay is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow researching prison theology at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, where he researched nonviolent civil disobedience in contemporary Islamic thought, focusing particularly on debates over the permissibility of hunger strikes. He is also working on his first book on Neo-Traditionalist Muslim networks in the West with Edinburgh University Press, focusing on how these networks navigate modernity, tradition and politics. He has previously taught Islamic Studies, Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham and Istanbul Şehir University. He received his philosophy degree from the School of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. His research interests include Muslim political subjectivities, popular political theology, theodicy, spirituality and traditionalism and modernism in contemporary Islamic thought.