The White Pearl
A translation and annotation of Ibn al-Arabi’s al-Durrat al-Bayda.
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The Sun from the West
A biographical route into the life, writings and doctrine of Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi.
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The Meccan Revelations
Translation work on Ibn al-Arabi’s al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya.
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Temporal Numbers
A book project exploring the relation between counting, temporal generation and mathematical structure.
Read the introductionShorter paths into time and creation
Time Chest synthesizes the main series for a broad readership. Eternity: ab ante–a post translates and annotates a focused treatise of Ibn al-Arabi on eternity and the relation between creator and creation.
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The purpose of this book is to explain the mystery of time in a modest language away from any complex mathematical formulation or hefty philosophical pondering. All the new conceptions about time and creation are extracted from the "Single Monad Model of the Cosmos" developed by the author, based on Ibn al-Arabi's theory of the "Oneness of Being". The details of this cosmological model, and all associated principles and consequences, have been published in three-volumes book series that described this revolutionary view of time and its philosophical and ontological foundations, comparing all that with the concluding results of modern scientific theories.
Eternity: ab ante - a post
This book is a translation, with extensive annotation, of one of Ibn al-Arabi's key treatises on the subject of time, called: kitab al-azal (the book of Eternity). In this book, Ibn al-Arabi elaborates on the different philosophical opinions on the subject of eternity and how it applies to divinity. He then explains his own unique concept and relate it to our concept of time.
Expected in June 2019.
The White Pearl
This is a translation of Ibn al-Arabi's book of ad-Durrat-ul-Bayda. We quoted this book many times in the Single Monad of the Cosmos book series, and here we present a full translation with extensive annotation. In this short book, Ibn al-Arabi comments on the various names and descriptions of the Single Monad, relating all that to the concept of time and pre-existence of the World in the divine fore-knowledge, before it is brought into actual existence in the outward corporeal and incorporeal dimensions, via the White Pearl, one of the important symbolic names of
the Single Monad..
Expected in July 2019.
The Sun from the West
This is a translation of Shams -ul-Maghrib: Biography of the Greatest Master
Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi and His Doctrine. See this
dedicated website.
Expected by the end of 2019.
The Meccan Revelations
This life-long project is a translation of Ibn al-Arabi's book of al-futuhat
al-makkiyya. Please check this
dedicated website.
Expected to take many years.
Temporal Numbers (Scheduled)
The profound implications of the Duality of Time propagate into mathematics and number theory, because it delineates the fundamental edifice of geometry. ... all kinds of objects in creation are nothing but temporal numbers, and no truthful calculus can be performed without taking into account their relativistic nature.