Ibn ʻArabī, time and cosmology
By: Mohamed Haj Yousef.
Series: Culture and civilisation in the Middle East
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415444996; 9780203938249
Subjects: Ibn al-ʻArabī, -- 1165-1240; Islamic cosmology; Time; Philosophy, Islamic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A brief overview of early cosmological models; title: Modern cosmology; title: Summary of modern theories of cosmology; title: Preliminary outline of Ibn Arabî's Cosmology; title: Time in philosophy and science, introduction; title: Time in Greek philosophy; title: Time in earlier Islamic philosophy; title: Time in Western philosophy; title: Time in modern science; title: Curved time and the big bang; title: The arrow of time; title: Time travel; title: Quantum time; title: Introducing Ibn Arabî's view of time; title: General aspects of Ibn Arabî's concept of time; title: What is time; title: Physical time and spiritual time; title: The origin of the world; title: The origin of time?; title: Space-time and the speed of light; title: Motion; title: Relative and curved time; title: The discrete nature of time; title: The 'chest' of time; title: Circular time and cyclical time; title: The two cycles of life; title: 'Days'; title: Days of other orbs and divine; title: Names; title: The daytime and night; title: The 'single day'; title: Moments; title: The future, the present and the past; title: Eternity; title: The age; title: Other expressions of time; title: The significance of the week and its seven days; title: The significance of the week in theology and astronomy; title: The four main time cycles : the day, the week, the month, the year; title: The week as the primary time cycle; title: The divine origin of the seven days of the week; title: The significance of each day of the divine week; title: 'The first day' of creation; title: 'The second day' of creation; title: 'The third day' of creation; title: 'The fourth day' of creation; title: 'The fifth day' of creation; title: The sixth 'day of gathering; title: The seventh 'day of rest'; title: Space-time and creation in six days; title: The actual flow of time; title: The original days of event; title: The 'circulated' days; title: The 'taken-out' days; title: The 'intertwined' days; title: Demonstrating the intertwined days; title: The significance of the intertwined days; title: The motion of the seven days in the zodiac; title: The kinds of events : hours, minutes and seconds; title: Unicity and multiplicity; title: The contrasting approaches of sufism and philosophy; title: Unicity versus multiplicity; title: The unicity of God and His Names; title: The metaphysical triplicity ('trinity') of the cosmos; title: The Oneness of Being; title: The principle of ever-renewed creation; title: The single-monad model of the cosmos; title: The three hypotheses : the single monad, the principle of ever-renewed creation, the actual flow of time; title: The different names of the single monad; title: The structure of the monad; title: The greatest element; title: Analogies in the macrocosms; title: The black stone and the Kaaba; title: The spiritual hierarchy; title: The world of letters; title: The hierarchy of divine names; title: Spreading the shadows; title: Creation scenario : the world as a movie; title: The single-monad model and its implications for modern physics; title: Testing possibilities; title: Timeless motion; title: Simultaneity; title: Zeno's paradoxes; title: Discreteness and continuousness; title: The epr paradox; title: Causality and induction; title: Superstrings and the science of letters; title: The properties of matter; title: Dimensions of the unseen world; title: The real (0d); title: The angels (1d); title: The jinn (2d); title: The humans (3d); title: The after-world.