Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, (26 November 1938, in Aosta – 19 September 2020, in Rome), was an Italian researcher and Islamologist.

The scholar was also interested in Shia Islam and issues related to female expressiveness and representation in this history.

[1][2] She earned her doctorate in 1963 from the University of Naples - L'Orientale with a dissertation titled "Hagiography, Popular Devotion, and Pilgrimages Dedicated to the Eighth Imam, ʿAlī al-Riḍā".

[1] In 1998, she organized the first international meeting of scholars on the theme of the ashraf and wrote a significant portion of the scientific outputs for the conference.

[1][3] The Iranian Cultural Institute in Italy quickly organized a webinar on 29 September 2020, in her honor.