Walaa Quisay is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh researching carceral theology. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester, where she researched non-violent civil disobedience in contemporary Islamic thought with a particular focus on debates on the permissibility of hunger strikes. She is also working on her first book with Edinburgh University Press on Neo-Traditionalist Muslim networks in the West with a focus on how they navigate modernity, tradition, and politics. Formerly, she was a fellow at the University of Birmingham and Istanbul Sehir University, where she taught courses on Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, and Sociology. She received her Phil from the University of Oxford at the Faculty of Oriental Studies. Her research interests include Muslim political subjectivities, popular political theology, theodicy, spirituality, and traditionalism and modernism in contemporary Islamic thought.