Ibn ʻArabī - time and cosmology [[electronic resource] /] / Mohamed Haj Yousef

• Autore: Yūsuf Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥājj
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 115.092
• Soggetto topico: Islamic cosmology; Time; Islamic philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgement; Abbreviations; 1 Cosmology and time; 2 General aspects of Ibn 'Arabî's concept of time and days; 3 The significance of the divine week and its seven days; 4 The actual flow of time; 5 Unicity and multiplicity; 6 The Single Monad model of the cosmos; 7 The Single Monad model and its implications for modern physics; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is the first comprehensive attempt to explain Ibn 'Arabî's distinctive view of time and its role in the process of creating the cosmos and its relation with the Creator. By comparing this original view with modern theories of physics and cosmology, Mohamed Haj Yousef constructs a new cosmological model that may deepen and extend our understanding of the world, while potentially solving some of the drawbacks in the current models such as the historical Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the recent Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (EPR) that underlines the discrepancies between Quantum M
• Titolo autorizzato: Ibn ʻArabī - time and cosmology
• ISBN: 1-134-06591-4; 1-281-06382-7; 9786611063825; 0-203-93824-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807003403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Culture and civilisation in the Middle East ; ; 11.