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English article archive
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Cosmology and model outlines
Time in philosophy and science
- Time in Philosophy and Science, Introduction
- Time in Greek Philosophy
- Time in Earlier Islamic Philosophy
- Time in Western Philosophy
- Time in Modern Science
- Introducing Ibn al-Arabi's View of Time
- What is Time?
- Physical Time and Spiritual Time
- The Origin of the World
- The Origin of Time
- Space-Time and the Speed of Light
- Motion
- Relative and Curved Time
Temporal cycles and cosmology
- The Cosmic Heart
- The Mass-Energy Equivalence
- Temporal Entanglement and the Phenomena of Single Particle Interference
- The Cosmic Computer
- Metaphysical Creation - from the COSMIC HEART
- The Discrete Nature of Time
- The 'Chest' of Time
- Circular Time and Cyclical Time
- The Two Cycles of Life
- Days
- Days of Other Orbs and Divine Names
- The Daytime and Nighttime
- The Single Day
- The Moment
- The Future, the Present and the Past
- Eternity
- The Age
- Other Expressions of Time
- The Significance of the Week in Theology and Astronomy
- The Four Main Time Cycles
- The Week as the Primary Time Cycle
- The Divine Origin of the Seven Days of the Week
- The Significance of Each Day of the Divine Week
- Space-Time and Creation in Six Days
- The Original Days of Event
- The Circulated Days (ayyam al-takwir)
- The Taken-out Days
- The Intertwined Days
- The Motion of the Seven Days in the Zodiac
- The Kinds of Events
- Hours, Minutes and Seconds
- The Contrasting Approaches of Sufism and Philosophy
Divine names, cosmology and theology
- Unicity versus Multiplicity
- The Unicity of God and His Names
- The Metaphysical Triplicity (Trinity) of the Cosmos
- The Oneness of Being
- The Principle of Ever-renewed Creation
- The Three Hypotheses of the Single Monad Model
- The Single Monad
- The Different Names of the Single Monad
- The Structure of the Monad
- The Greatest Element
- Analogies in the Macrocosms
Single Monad and theoretical interpretations
- Spreading the Shadows
- Creation Scenario: the World as a Movie
- Testing Possibilities
- Timeless Motion
- Simultaneity
- Zeno's Paradoxes
- Discreteness and Continuousness
- The EPR Paradox
- Causality and Induction
- Superstrings and the Science of Letters
- The Properties of Matter
- Dimensions of the Unseen world
- Principle of Love
- Why the Speed of Light is Constant?
- World Formula and the Kaaba
- Quantum Consciousness and Free Will
- Oneness versus Multiplicity
- Human Teeth and Elementray Particles
- Oneness and the Four Levels of Symmetry
- Divine Theophanies and the Five Divine Presences
Journal articles
- Sufism and philosophy: were Ibn al-Arabi and Ibn Rushd enemies?
- Between yes and no: Ibn Rushd and Ibn al-Arabi — abridged English version
- Nizam and Tarjuman al-Ashwaq: spiritual love poetry — abridged English version
- Damascus and an unknown love — abridged English version
- Poetry and prose: which comes first? — abridged English version
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Research guides and studies
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