Author Biography

Mohamed Haj Yousef is a writer and researcher interested in physics, cosmology, philosophy and Islamic thought, especially with regard to mysticism and Ibn al-Arabi. He did his undergraduate studies in Syria where he earned the B.Sc. degree in Solid State Physics from the University of Aleppo in 1989 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Electronics from the same university in 1990. After that, he obtained the Master s degree in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics from the University of Cambridge in the UK in 1992. After a period of teaching, he resumed to get the PhD from the University of Exeter in UK in the year 2005, where he studied the concept of time in Ibn al-Arabi s cosmology and its implications on modern physics, which was published in several books and eventually lead to the Duality of Time Theory. This research was supervised by Prof. James W. Morris, as it is continuously inspired by the spiritual guidance of Sheikh Ramadhan Subhi Deeb, the Naqshbandi master at Sheikh Ahmad Kuftaro Foundation in Damascus.

The author has also published numerous articles in Arabic and English that combines science, philosophy and Islamic thought. Most of these articles are accessible online at: http://www.ibnalarabi.com. He also published several books on the subject of time, and other related subjects in Islamic thought and Sufi mysticism, including:

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