Abstract: In the paper, I will show how prison literature is presented in contemporary Islamic writings in Saudi Arabia within the informal Islamic education of halaqahs and learning circles in mosques. The paper will also study the impact of this literature on the Islamic thinking and literature in the country in the aftermath of Arab Spring (post-2011). Only three months after the Saudi crown prince Muhammed bin Salman (MBS) came to power in June 2017, he started one of the largest waves of arrests in the country. On the top of the detainees in this September 2017 crackdown were prominent Muslim scholars like Salman Alodah, Awadh al-Qarni and Ali Alomari. Many of them had been arrested before and some of them authored poems or even books in prison. The Muslim scholars’ entanglement with the state is not new and because of it, I argue that it has affected the thinking, theology, and writings of contemporary Muslim scholars in Saudi Arabia with the example of post-2011 writings in the country. Growing up in Islamic learning circles and halaqas in Saudi Arabia, an unmistakable theme is the struggle of scholars and jurists and the plight they alway face from rulers and sultans in the Islamic history and from dictators and ruling elites in the present. Having trained in “classical” Islamic education Islamic scholars and jurists present incarceration as the classical form of this troubled relationship. Saudi (legally-trained) scholars and Muslims thinkers showed this expected crisis with their government in their writings and it even affected their jurisprudence and literature. The impact is, on one hand, positive by learning how to survive and protect their doctrine and, on the other hand, is negative by being intellectually imprisoned in this troubled relationship with the state and failing to theorise or think beyond this disconcerting relationship. In this paper I will discuss how prison literature is presented in contemporary Islamic writings in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of Arab Spring revolutions (post-2011). I will argue that prison affected Islamic thinking and literature in the country.