Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Chair of Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His research is focused on Islam-state-society relations in Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt and Central Asia along with research into political participation and legal pluralism in Muslim minority communities, particularly in the United Kingdom and Australia. He was professor of political science at Istanbul Fatih University (2008–2016), lecturer-in-law, social sciences and politics at SOAS, University of London (2001–2008), a fellow at Center for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford (1999–2001) where he worked on Muslim political participation in the UK and also on neo-ijtihad by young Muslim micro-mujtahids.