Walaa Quisay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1608059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walaa Quisay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walaa |
| FAMILY NAME | Quisay |
| SIGNATURE | QUISAY W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hold Fast the Rope of God
Scholarship about Muslims in prison has been overwhelmingly dominated by security studies’ radicalization thesis and by a superficial reading of incarcerated Muslims’ “religious resilience.” Such approaches caricature the force of Islam in prison and indeed in Muslim prison narratives. This essay draws on interviews with survivors of prisons in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Syria in order to develop other terms for analysis. Across our tex…
Carceral Fiqh and the Battle of the Empty Stomachs
This article employs an ethnographic approach—including legal ethnography and prison narratives—to examine the question of the permissibility of hunger strikes in Islam. In doing so, it assumes a dual source of authority, that of religious scholars on the one hand and the experiential authority of hunger strikers on the other. The article first introduces the metaphysics of confinement in which the prison imam acts as a technician of power in a l…
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West
Locating the (Neo)Traditional
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West
Locating 'Praxis' in Islamic Liberation Theology
The paper examines the tenability of a project for Islamic liberation theology by exploring the religious lives of Egyptian prisoners-with an emphasis on their encounters with the Qur'an, devotional and contentious contemplation, and theodicy. It employs an ethnographic approach to the study of Islam in Egyptian prisons by interviewing former political prisoners incarcerated after the 2013 military coup. By examining the work of key liberation th…
Competing Theodicies
The political failure of the Islamist project in Egypt was cemented after the 2013 military coup and subsequent massacre in Rabaa al-Adawiyya Square. For Islamist activists, their cultivation of moral and political agency was directly linked to their understanding of the problem of suffering and God's action. This article shows three accounts of theodicy. The first account is a traditional Islamist one exemplified in Sayyid Qutb's theodical inter…
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Competing Theodicies
The political failure of the Islamist project in Egypt was cemented after the 2013 military coup and subsequent massacre in Rabaa al-Adawiyya Square. For Islamist activists, their cultivation of moral and political agency was directly linked to their understanding of the problem of suffering and God's action. This article shows three accounts of theodicy. The first account is a traditional Islamist one exemplified in Sayyid Qutb's theodical inter…
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West
Locating the (Neo)Traditional
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West
Locating 'Praxis' in Islamic Liberation Theology
The paper examines the tenability of a project for Islamic liberation theology by exploring the religious lives of Egyptian prisoners-with an emphasis on their encounters with the Qur'an, devotional and contentious contemplation, and theodicy. It employs an ethnographic approach to the study of Islam in Egyptian prisons by interviewing former political prisoners incarcerated after the 2013 military coup. By examining the work of key liberation th…
Carceral Fiqh and the Battle of the Empty Stomachs
This article employs an ethnographic approach—including legal ethnography and prison narratives—to examine the question of the permissibility of hunger strikes in Islam. In doing so, it assumes a dual source of authority, that of religious scholars on the one hand and the experiential authority of hunger strikers on the other. The article first introduces the metaphysics of confinement in which the prison imam acts as a technician of power in a l…
Hold Fast the Rope of God
Scholarship about Muslims in prison has been overwhelmingly dominated by security studies’ radicalization thesis and by a superficial reading of incarcerated Muslims’ “religious resilience.” Such approaches caricature the force of Islam in prison and indeed in Muslim prison narratives. This essay draws on interviews with survivors of prisons in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Syria in order to develop other terms for analysis. Across our tex…
Philosophy (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)