Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Managing Editor of the Shi'i Heritage Series. She has authored Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi (2014) and has co-edited Shi'i Esotericism: Roots and Developments (2016) as well as a writing a number of journal articles and encyclopaedia entries. She has taught medieval Islamic philosophy and speculative theology at SOAS and at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research interests include Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Shi‘i esotericism and Ismaili philosophy.

• List of AbbreviationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsNOTES ON THE TEXTINTRODUCTION PART ONE: DELINEATING AL-KIRMANI’S THEORETICAL SYSTEM1. The Plotinian Legacy and al-Sijistani’s Influence: A Preliminary Approach to al- Kirmani’s Understanding of the Intellect2. Al-Kirmani’s Views on the Agent and the Nature of the Intellect3. Meritorious Determination: Outlining al-Kirmani’s Cosmological Scheme4. The Human Soul and Providence5. Human Actions in the Realm of Acquisition6. The Intellect’s Knowledge of Particulars7. Correspondences between the alam al-wahda and the 'alam al-dinPART TWO: ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION OF CHAPTER EIGHT OF AL-KIRMANI’S KITAB AL-RIYADOrigins and Nature of the qada wa’l-qadar Ddebate in the RiyadFasl OneFasl TwoFasl ThreeFasl FourFasl FiveFasl SixFasl SevenFasl EightFasl NineFasl TenFasl ElevenFasl TwelveFasl ThirteenFasl FourteenFasl FifteenFasl SixteenFasl SeventeenFasl EighteenFasl NineteenFasl TwentyFasl Twenty-oneFasl Twenty-twoFasl Twenty-threeFasl Twenty-fourCONCLUSIONBibliographyIndex

Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Managing Editor of the Shi'i Heritage Series. She has authored Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi (2014) and has co-edited Shi'i Esotericism: Roots and Developments (2016) as well as a writing a number of journal articles and encyclopaedia entries. She has taught medieval Islamic philosophy and speculative theology at SOAS and at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research interests include Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Shi‘i esotericism and Ismaili philosophy.

• List of AbbreviationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsNOTES ON THE TEXTINTRODUCTION PART ONE: DELINEATING AL-KIRMANI’S THEORETICAL SYSTEM1. The Plotinian Legacy and al-Sijistani’s Influence: A Preliminary Approach to al- Kirmani’s Understanding of the Intellect2. Al-Kirmani’s Views on the Agent and the Nature of the Intellect3. Meritorious Determination: Outlining al-Kirmani’s Cosmological Scheme4. The Human Soul and Providence5. Human Actions in the Realm of Acquisition6. The Intellect’s Knowledge of Particulars7. Correspondences between the alam al-wahda and the 'alam al-dinPART TWO: ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION OF CHAPTER EIGHT OF AL-KIRMANI’S KITAB AL-RIYADOrigins and Nature of the qada wa’l-qadar Ddebate in the RiyadFasl OneFasl TwoFasl ThreeFasl FourFasl FiveFasl SixFasl SevenFasl EightFasl NineFasl TenFasl ElevenFasl TwelveFasl ThirteenFasl FourteenFasl FifteenFasl SixteenFasl SeventeenFasl EighteenFasl NineteenFasl TwentyFasl Twenty-oneFasl Twenty-twoFasl Twenty-threeFasl Twenty-fourCONCLUSIONBibliographyIndex

Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Managing Editor of the Shi'i Heritage Series. She has authored Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi (2014) and has co-edited Shi'i Esotericism: Roots and Developments (2016) as well as a writing a number of journal articles and encyclopaedia entries. She has taught medieval Islamic philosophy and speculative theology at SOAS and at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research interests include Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Shi‘i esotericism and Ismaili philosophy.

• List of AbbreviationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsNOTES ON THE TEXTINTRODUCTION PART ONE: DELINEATING AL-KIRMANI’S THEORETICAL SYSTEM1. The Plotinian Legacy and al-Sijistani’s Influence: A Preliminary Approach to al- Kirmani’s Understanding of the Intellect2. Al-Kirmani’s Views on the Agent and the Nature of the Intellect3. Meritorious Determination: Outlining al-Kirmani’s Cosmological Scheme4. The Human Soul and Providence5. Human Actions in the Realm of Acquisition6. The Intellect’s Knowledge of Particulars7. Correspondences between the alam al-wahda and the 'alam al-dinPART TWO: ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION OF CHAPTER EIGHT OF AL-KIRMANI’S KITAB AL-RIYADOrigins and Nature of the qada wa’l-qadar Ddebate in the RiyadFasl OneFasl TwoFasl ThreeFasl FourFasl FiveFasl SixFasl SevenFasl EightFasl NineFasl TenFasl ElevenFasl TwelveFasl ThirteenFasl FourteenFasl FifteenFasl SixteenFasl SeventeenFasl EighteenFasl NineteenFasl TwentyFasl Twenty-oneFasl Twenty-twoFasl Twenty-threeFasl Twenty-fourCONCLUSIONBibliographyIndex