Ibn ʻArabī - time and cosmology / Mohamed Haj Yousef.

"First published in 2008. First issued in paperback ed 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-217) and index.

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.