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The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos

Ibn al-Arabi’s Concept of Time and Creation

Mohamed Haj Yousef

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  1. Book Title
  2. DEDICATION
  3. FOREWORD
  4. PREFACE
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  6. ABBREVIATIONS
  7. CHAPTER I Cosmology and Time
  8. 1. A Brief Overview of Early Cosmological Models:
  9. 2. Modern Cosmology:
  10. 3. Summary of Modern Theories of Cosmology:
  11. 4. Preliminary Outline of Ibn Arabi's Cosmology:
  12. Figure I.1: 'The Cloud' and what it contains, down to the 'establishing Throne'. This diagram is translated from Ibn Arabi's drawing in chapter 371 [III 421].
  13. Figure I.2: The establishing Throne and what it contains down to the Pedestal. This diagram is translated from Ibn Arabi's drawing in chapter 371 [III 422]. We put the title as it is in the original text, though we notice that the diagram shows the Prime
  14. Figure I.3: The (divine) Pedestal and what it contains down to the constellations. This diagram is translated from Ibn Arabi's drawing in chapter 371 [III 423].
  15. Figure I.4: The orb of the constellations and what it contains down to the earth. This diagram is translated from Ibn Arabi's drawing in chapter 371 [III 424].
  16. 5. Time in Philosophy and Science, Introduction:
  17. 6. Time in Greek Philosophy:
  18. 7. Time in Earlier Islamic Philosophy:
  19. 8. Time in Western Philosophy:
  20. 9. Time in Modern Science:
  21. 9.1. Curved Time and the Big Bang:
  22. 9.2. The Arrow of Time:
  23. 9.3. Time Travel:
  24. 9.4. Quantum Time:
  25. 10. Introducing Ibn Arabi's View of Time:
  26. CHAPTER II General Aspects of Ibn Arabi's View of Time and Days
  27. 1. What is Time?
  28. 2. Physical Time and Spiritual Time:
  29. 3. The Origin of the World:
  30. 4. The Origin of Time?
  31. 5. Space-Time and the Speed of Light:
  32. 6. Motion:
  33. 7. Relative and Curved Time:
  34. 8. The Discrete Nature of Time:
  35. 9. The 'Chest' of Time:
  36. 10. Circular Time and Cyclical Time:
  37. 11. The Two Cycles of Life:
  38. Figure II.1: The Cycle of Life. The numbers of years are extracted from chapter 7 of the Futuhat [I 121-6].
  39. 12. 'Days':
  40. 13. Days of Other Orbs and Divine Names:
  41. Table II.1: Days of some orbs and divine Names. The numbers have been collected from different books of Ibn Arabi. We should add that as noted in our table here Ibn Arabi actually considers the year to be 360 days rather than 365.25 days; see also secti
  42. 14. The Daytime and Nighttime:
  43. Figure II.2: The daytime and night in the sky. Night is only in some regions below the corresponding orb, whereas in the orb itself it is all day. And in the case of the normal day on the earth, the outlet of the night is extended in space as a cone.
  44. 15. The 'Single Day':
  45. 16. Moments:
  46. 17. The Future, the Present and the Past:
  47. 18. Eternity:
  48. 19. The Age:
  49. 20. Other Expressions of Time:
  50. CHAPTER III The Significance of the Divine Week and its Seven Days
  51. 1. The Significance of the Week in Theology and Astronomy:
  52. 2. The Four Main Time Cycles:
  53. Figure III.1: The Divine Quadratic Rule. This figure is translated from the Futuhat [I 260].
  54. 2.1. The Day:
  55. 2.2. The Week:
  56. 2.3. The Month:
  57. 2.4. The Year:
  58. 3. The Week as the Primary Time Cycle:
  59. 4. The Divine Origin of the Seven Days of the Week:
  60. Table III.1: The correspondences between the seven Days of the divine Week and the seven heavens, seven earthly regions, divine Names, lunar mansions and letters of the Arabic alphabet. The information in this table is extracted from chapter 198 of the Fu
  61. 5. The Significance of Each Day of the Divine Week:
  62. 5.1. 'The First Day' of Creation (al-ahad, Sunday):
  63. 5.2. 'The Second Day' of Creation (al-ithnayn, Monday):
  64. 5.3. 'The Third Day' of Creation (al-thulatha , Tuesday):
  65. 5.4. 'The Fourth Day' of Creation (al-arba a , Wednesday):
  66. 5.5. 'The Fifth Day' of Creation (al-khamis, Thursday):
  67. 5.6. The Sixth 'Day of Gathering' (al-jum a, Friday) and Its Special Hour:
  68. 5.7. The Seventh 'Day of Rest' (al-sabt, Saturday) as the 'Day of Eternity':
  69. 6. Space-Time and Creation in Six Days:
  70. CHAPTER IV The Actual Flow of Time
  71. 1. The Original Days of Event:
  72. 2. The 'Circulated' Days (ayyam al-takwir):
  73. 3. The 'Taken-out' Days:
  74. Table IV.1: The taken out days. There are three daytimes and three nights between the daytime and the night that is taken out of it. This Table is summarized from Ayyam Al-Sha n, pp. 6-7.
  75. Figure IV.1: The 'Taken-out' days. (It helps to imagine the resulting loop in three dimensions (x, y, z), as indicated graphically below.)
  76. 4. The 'Intertwined' Days:
  77. Table IV.2: The intertwined Days (example of Sunday alone). The shaded background indicates the nights of the normal days, and bold font indicates the nighttime hours of the intertwined Days. The data in this table is extracted from Kitab Ayyam Al-Sha
  78. Table IV.3: The intertwined Days (all Days). The shaded background indicates the nights of the normal days, and bold font indicates Night hours of the intertwined Days. The data in this table is extracted from Kitab Ayyam Al-Sha n, pp. 11-16.
  79. 4.1. Demonstrating the Intertwined Days:
  80. Figure IV.2: The intertwined days, and their relation with the circulated days. The information in this figure is extracted from Kitab Ayyam Al-Sha n, pp. 11-16.
  81. 4.2. The Significance of the Intertwined Days:
  82. 5. The Motion of the Seven Days in the Zodiac:
  83. Figure IV.3: The Zodiac and the motion of the days through it.
  84. 6. The Kinds of Events:
  85. Table IV.4: The action of the Soul (on the world) in each Day of the seven Days of events and the ratio of contribution by the seven Heavens.
  86. 7. Hours, Minutes and Seconds:
  87. CHAPTER V Unicity and Multiplicity
  88. 1. The Contrasting Approaches of Sufism and Philosophy:
  89. 2. Unicity versus Multiplicity:
  90. Figure V.1: The Real, the 'Possible' existents, and the 'Impossible'. This figure is taken from chapter 360 of the Futuhat [III 275].
  91. 3. The Unicity of God and His Names:
  92. 4. The Metaphysical Triplicity ('Trinity') of the Cosmos:
  93. 5. The Oneness of Being:
  94. 6. The Principle of Ever-renewed Creation:
  95. CHAPTER VI The Single-Monad Model of the Cosmos
  96. 1. The Three Hypotheses:
  97. 2. The Single Monad:
  98. 3. The Different Names of the Single Monad:
  99. 4. The Structure of the Monad:
  100. Figure VI.1: Summary of the different types of knowable things.
  101. Figure VI.2: The Different Divisions of Existence (from Insha al-Dawa ir, page 19). The numbers 0 and 1 in the inside circle describe whether the corresponding division is localized (1) or not localized (0); and (second number) whether it is self-subsist
  102. 5. The Greatest Element:
  103. 6. Analogies in the Macrocosms:
  104. 6.1. The Black Stone and the Kaaba:
  105. Figure VI.3: Photograph of the Kaaba, with people on the Hajj circumambulating it. The Black Stone appears in the front corner, near the door.
  106. Figure VI.4: How circumambulating the Kaaba is similar to the Greatest Element's creation of the Single Monad. Circumambulation starts anti-clockwise from the eastern corner where the Black Stone is, and that corner is for the Pole.
  107. 6.2. The Spiritual Hierarchy:
  108. 6.3. The World of Letters:
  109. 6.4. The Hierarchy of Divine Names:
  110. 7. Spreading the Shadows:
  111. 8. Creation Scenario: the World as a Movie:
  112. CHAPTER VII Implications for Modern Physics
  113. 1. Testing Possibilities:
  114. 2. Timeless Motion:
  115. 3. Simultaneity:
  116. 4. Zeno's Paradoxes:
  117. 5. Discreteness and Continuousness:
  118. 6. The EPR Paradox:
  119. 7. Causality and Induction:
  120. 8. Superstrings and the Science of Letters:
  121. 9. The Properties of Matter:
  122. 10. Dimensions of the Unseen world:
  123. 10.1. The Real:
  124. Figure VII.1: 0-D, a point. It actually has no length, width, or breadth. This is what is called a geometrical point.
  125. 10.2. Angels:
  126. Figure VII.2: 1-D, a line segment. It has a length, and it is created by moving a point.
  127. 10.3. The Jinn:
  128. Figure VII.3: 2-D, a unit square. It has length and width, and it is created by moving the line segment in a direction perpendicular to the line on which the segment lies.
  129. 10.4. Humans:
  130. Figure VII.4: 3-D, a unit cube. It has length, width, and depth. It is created by moving the square in a direction perpendicular to the plane. Notice that seven motions are needed to make up the cube.
  131. 10.5. The Hereafter:
  132. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  133. A: Ibn Arabi's Printed Works (in Arabic):
  134. B: Arabic Works on Ibn Arabi and Related Subjects:
  135. C: English Translations and Studies on Ibn Arabi and Related Subjects:
  136. D: Cited Books and Articles on Philosophy, Cosmology and Time:
  137. INDEX
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