Ibn 'arabi - Time and Cosmology

by Mohamed Haj Yousef

This book is the first comprehensive attempt to explain Ibn ‘Arabî’s distinctive view of time and its role in the process of creating the cosmos and its relation with the Creator. By comparing this original view with modern theories of physics and cosmology, Mohamed Haj Yousef constructs a new cosmological model that may deepen and extend our understanding of the world, while potentially solving some of the drawbacks in the current models such as the historical Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the recent Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (EPR) that underlines the discrepancies between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.

Genres: Religion, Islam

254 pages, Hardcover

First published November 29, 2007

About the author

Mohemed Haj Yousef is a writer and researcher in physics, cosmology, philosophy and Islamic thought, especially apropos mysticism and Ibn al-Arabi. He studied Physics at Aleppo University in 1989 and obtained the Master's degree from Cambridge University in 1992. After a period of teaching, he also got the PhD from the University of Exeter, in 2005, where he explored the Concept of Time in Ibn al-Arabi's Cosmology and compared it with the fundamental results of modern physics theories.
This pioneering research led to the Single Monad Model of the Cosmos, which was first published by Routledge in 2007, and edited again in 2014. Ibn Arabi is the only scholar who was able to formulate a unique cosmological model that is capable of explaining our observations as well as many phenomena in physics and cosmology, and even solve some perplexing modern and historical riddles in science and philosophy such as the EPR paradox and Zeno paradoxes of motion. Moreover, the Single Monad Model explains for the first time in history the importance of the “week” as a basic unit of space and time together.
In 2017, this model was developed further to the Duality of Time Theory, which explained how the cosmos is being dynamically created in the real (inner) flow of time, before it is kinetically developing in the outer (imaginary) level that we encounter. This innovative, genuinely-complex, time-time geometry solved many of the major persisting problems in Physics and Cosmology, and provided the first logical interpretation of Quantum Mechanics; leading to full Quantum Field Theory of Gravity and uniting the corporeal and incorporeal worlds into one perfectly-symmetrical space, as explained in the Ultimate Symmetry.
In the Ultimate Symmetry, Super-symmetry, and quantum gravity, are realized with the two complementary physical and psychical worlds, while the spiritual realm is governed by hyper-symmetry, which mirrors the previous two levels together, and all these three realms mirror the ultimate level of absolute oneness that describes the symmetry of the divine presence of God and His Beautiful Names and Attributes. This “ULTIMATE SYMMETRY” is a modern scientific account of the same ancient mystical, and greatly controversial, theory of the “Oneness of Being” that is often misinterpreted in terms of “pantheism”, but it is indeed the concluding gnostic knowledge of God and creation. Otherwise, how can we understand the origin of the cosmos, with both or either of its corporeal and incorporeal realms, without referring to its Originator!
Another book, in the Single Monad Model of the Cosmos series, is now under publishing, with the purpose to explain the mystery of time in a modest language away from any complex mathematical formulation or hefty philosophical pondering. This book is called the Chest of Time: Particle-Wave Duality from Time Confinement to Space Transcendence. This book is extracted and refined from the previous three volumes, to make it relevant and accessible to more readers who may be interested in the definitive conclusions, rather than any exhausting proofs. Passionate readers who require further, and more comprehensive arguments, are referred to the previous volumes inside the text, whenever some urging validation may be necessary.

Reviews

[Ömür Kizil · Rating 5 out of 5]

İbnü'l Arabi'nin ciltlerce eserine yayılmış olan zaman ve kozmoloji tasavvurunu gayet açık bir dille toparlayıp okuyucuya sunan, bu tasavvuru modern fizik teorileri ışığında inceleyen ve üst düzey muhakeme neticesinde ortaya çıktığı aşikar olan muhteşem bir eser. Yazarın uzmanlık alanının fizik olması ve derin tasavvuf bilgisi, özgün üst düzey bir sentezin ortaya çıkmasını mümkün kılmış görünüyor.

[Mehmet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inanilmaz bir kitap. Son 40 sayfasi hayata, evrene, dine bakis acimi degistirdi. Yalniz kitaptan tam faydalanabilmek icin yuksek seviyede fizik ve din bilgisine sahip olmak gerekli. Aksi halde, hayatinizdaki en sacma kitabi okudugunuzu dusunebilirsiniz...

[Tourya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Livre très intéressant avec des théories sur le temps très proche de la physique quantique contemporaine. D'après Ibn Arabi (ainsi que les Ash'arites) notre monde serai en perpétuel création, à chaque instant Dieu recrée l'univers. Le temps n'est que pure imagination. Livre ardue où se mêle métaphysique, physique et théologie, mais passionnant!
Seul bémol : le style de l'auteur et la structure du livre. il y a beaucoup de répétitions, les définitions des termes techniques sont expliqués que vers la fin du livre, des super exemples présenté qu'à la fin du livre mais qui aurai sûrement évité des longueurs...
J'ai dans ma PAL 2 autres lives de cosmologie musulmane et les lierai pour éclaircir certains points et découvrir de nouveaux auteurs.

[Zafer Çakır · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nasilmis

[Ayesha · Rating 5 out of 5]

best book to get the knowledge about time in view of science and spiritual experts..
How ibnul arabi gives insight into quranic gems..very easy language