The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos

Ibn Arabi’s Concept of Time and Creation

The book develops the historical and philosophical foundations of the Single Monad Model through a study of Ibn al-Arabi’s account of time and creation. It connects questions about unity and multiplicity with the proposed recurrent formation of spatial relations.

How to read this book

Read this volume for the intellectual foundations of the programme: the meaning of time, the ordering of creation, and the relationship between a common source and an observable world. The later mathematical papers should be consulted separately for their particular definitions, hypotheses, and results.