Thomas Parker earned Double Degrees in Arabic and International and Area Studies from the University of Oklahoma in 2014. He recently finished his Masters in Civilizational Studies from Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey. His academic interests include Ottoman History and Islamic Political Thought, while also pursuing the Islamic Sciences. He is the author of “On the Theology of Disobedience: An Analysis of Shaykh Bin Bayyah and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf’s Political Thought”, among a number of other academic publications in ReOrient and the American Journal of Islam and Social Sciences, as well as journalistic and semi-academic publications for platforms such as Maydan, Al-Sharq Strategic Forum and TRT World.