久久久福利国产 is pleased to welcome Dr Maria De Cillis as a Research Associate in the Department of Academic Research and Publications. Dr De Cillis completed her undergraduate studies in the field of English and Arabic Languages and Literatures at the in Naples, Italy, in 2001. In 2004, she completed an MA in Islamic Studies from the (SOAS), University of London.
Dr De Cillis continued her interest in Islamic studies by completing a PhD at SOAS where her thesis was entitled: The Discourse of Compromise: Theoretical Constructs of Free Will and Predestination in the Works of Avicenna, Ghazali and Ibn al-鈥楢rabi. The thesis examines the contributions made by these scholars to discourses on doctrines of free will and predestination in classical Islamic thought. Her work showed how these luminaries were committed to compromise between philosophical, theological and mystical outlooks.
Her research interests include the Islamic tradition in the formative period, Islamic theology (‘ilm al-kalam),聽the study of the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍, Islamic philosophy (falsafa) and Islamic spirituality and mysticism (al-tasawwuf), as part of the evolution of Islamic intellectual history.
She has taught at and SOAS, and her publications include an article entitled 础惫颈肠别苍苍补鈥檚 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Discourse on Prime Matter, published in the Journal of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Studies as well as fourteen biographical entries and translations for the Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilisation and Culture, both forthcoming in 2012.