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Ibn ʻArabī, time and cosmology /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yūsuf, Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥājj
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2007.
Colección:Culture and civilisation in the Middle East.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A brief overview of early cosmological models
  • Modern cosmology
  • Summary of modern theories of cosmology
  • Preliminary outline of Ibn Arabî's Cosmology
  • Time in philosophy and science, introduction
  • Time in Greek philosophy
  • Time in earlier Islamic philosophy
  • Time in Western philosophy
  • Time in modern science
  • Curved time and the big bang
  • The arrow of time
  • Time travel
  • Quantum time
  • Introducing Ibn Arabî's view of time
  • General aspects of Ibn Arabî's concept of time
  • What is time
  • Physical time and spiritual time
  • The origin of the world
  • The origin of time?
  • Space-time and the speed of light
  • Motion
  • Relative and curved time
  • The discrete nature of time
  • The 'chest' of time
  • Circular time and cyclical time
  • The two cycles of life
  • 'Days'
  • Days of other orbs and divine
  • Names
  • The daytime and night
  • The 'single day'
  • Moments
  • The future, the present and the past
  • Eternity
  • The age
  • Other expressions of time
  • The significance of the week and its seven days
  • The significance of the week in theology and astronomy
  • The four main time cycles : the day, the week, the month, the year
  • The week as the primary time cycle
  • The divine origin of the seven days of the week
  • The significance of each day of the divine week
  • 'The first day' of creation
  • 'The second day' of creation
  • 'The third day' of creation
  • 'The fourth day' of creation
  • 'The fifth day' of creation
  • The sixth 'day of gathering
  • The seventh 'day of rest'
  • Space-time and creation in six days
  • The actual flow of time
  • The original days of event
  • The 'circulated' days
  • The 'taken-out' days
  • The 'intertwined' days
  • Demonstrating the intertwined days
  • The significance of the intertwined days
  • The motion of the seven days in the zodiac
  • The kinds of events : hours, minutes and seconds
  • Unicity and multiplicity
  • The contrasting approaches of sufism and philosophy
  • Unicity versus multiplicity
  • The unicity of God and His Names
  • The metaphysical triplicity ('trinity') of the cosmos
  • The Oneness of Being
  • The principle of ever-renewed creation
  • The single-monad model of the cosmos
  • The three hypotheses : the single monad, the principle of ever-renewed creation, the actual flow of time
  • The different names of the single monad
  • The structure of the monad
  • The greatest element
  • Analogies in the macrocosms
  • The black stone and the Kaaba
  • The spiritual hierarchy
  • The world of letters
  • The hierarchy of divine names
  • Spreading the shadows
  • Creation scenario : the world as a movie
  • The single-monad model and its implications for modern physics
  • Testing possibilities
  • Timeless motion
  • Simultaneity
  • Zeno's paradoxes
  • Discreteness and continuousness
  • The epr paradox
  • Causality and induction
  • Superstrings and the science of letters
  • The properties of matter
  • Dimensions of the unseen world
  • The real (0d)
  • The angels (1d)
  • The jinn (2d)
  • The humans (3d)
  • The after-world.