Maria De Cillis

Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Series Editor of the Shiʿi Heritage Series. She has authored Salvation and Destiny in Islam: The Shiʿi Ismaili Perspective of Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī (2018), Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazālī and Ibn ʿArabī (2014) and has co-edited L’ésotérisme shiʿite, ses racines et ses prolongements/Shiʿi Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments (2016) as well as writing journal articles and encyclopaedia entries. She has taught on the Qurʾan at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and on medieval Islamic philosophy and speculative theology at Birkbeck College, University of London. She continues to teach on Shiʿi Islam and Islamic intellectual history at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Her research interests include Islamic metaphysics, Sufism, Shiʿi esotericism and Ismaili philosophy.