Michelangelo Guida earned his BA in Political Science, specializing in Middle Eastern politics and history, from the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, Italy. He went on to complete an MA in Turkish Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in 2002. In 2005 he received his PhD from the Istituto Universitario Orientale with a dissertation on Turkish Islamism in the early twentieth century. He has taught at several Turkish universities since 2005. He is the author of Islamist Political Thought in Turkey (London: I.B. Tauris, 2026) and Turkish Politics: Making Sense of Nation, Identities, and Ideologies (Ankara: Orion, 2021). He has also published numerous articles on electoral behavior, Turkish Islamist intellectuals, and the evolution of political ideas.