Introducing Ibn al-Arabi's View of Time
Introduce Ibn al-Arabi’s treatment of time as a relation associated with change and manifestation. Provide a bridge from the historical terminology to the later Single Monad interpretation.
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Follow the philosophical vocabulary of time, creation, unity, and multiplicity through contextual reading and attributed source material.
Short quotations can introduce a question, but their interpretation depends on the work and context from which they are drawn. This section connects the site’s quotation collection with fuller discussions of Ibn al-Arabi, the meanings of time, and the relation between unity and multiplicity.
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All 220 articles →Physical Time and Spiritual Time
Examine the distinction between natural time associated with bodily motion and spiritual time associated with changing states. Keep this historical distinction separate from any proposed laboratory model.
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Introduce eternity without treating it as merely a very long duration. Compare timeless dependence, endless succession, and the language of beginning and end.
Read article →The Contrasting Approaches of Sufism and Philosophy
Compare the methods of Sufism and philosophy as presented in the source discussion. Explain how experience, interpretation, and argument support different kinds of claim.
Read article →Unicity and multiplicity: the conceptual problem
Define the conceptual problem of relating a unified source to a differentiated world. Focus on the meanings of unity and multiplicity before introducing mathematical representations.
Read article →Reading Ibn ‘Arabi — Time and Cosmology
A source-oriented entry point for the historical study underlying the later research program.
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