Ismail Albayrak (born 1968 in Ankara) is a Turkish Islamic theologian and Islamic scholar, who works as a university professor in Australia. He studied theology at the Faculty of Theology (İlâhiyat Fakultesi) at Ankara University until 1991. He completed his postgraduate studies in England with a scholarship from the Turkish Council for Higher Education (YÖK). He received his PhD from the University of Leeds (2000) in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, went on to teach at Sakarya University in Adapazari, Turkey (Qur'anic Studies, Classical Exegesis, Contemporary Approaches to the Qur'an and Oriental Studies), and is now Professor in Islamic studies at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, the only public Catholic university in Australia. He is the author of numerous books and texts. His most recent research focuses on the Ibāḍī tradition, the relationship between sounds and meanings in the Qur'an, classical prison literature in Islamic societies, and the status of women in Islamic traditions.