Ibn ʻArabī, time and cosmology /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2007.
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Colección: | Culture and civilisation in the Middle East.
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Temas: | |
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.