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Ibn 'Arabi on Free Will and Predestination. Between Philosophy and Mysticism

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Dr. Maria De Cillis is a Research Associate and the Managing Editor of the Shi'i Heritage Series at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. She received an MA degree in Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2004. She continued her PhD studies at the same University, completing it in October 2010. She is the author of 'Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought. Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi' (London/New York, 2014). She is among the editors of 'L'esoterisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements / Shi'i Esotericism: Roots and Developments' (Turnhout, 2016), and her ongoing projects include the monograph 'Decree and Salvation: al-Kirmani's Ismaili Perspective' (forthcoming, 2017).