Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life (Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue Book 3)

From time immemorial, concern with timing of life has been crucial for the regulation of human praxis as well as for the philosophical quest to understand existence by seeking its meaning. The two used to inform each other, until modernity, when they parted. In spite of the extensive progress in manipulating change and motion, and of the abundance of metaphysical attempts to enlighten human beings about their fate, the puzzling nature of temporality and timing of reality remains controversial. The present collection of studies seeks a new answer by initiating a novel investigation informed by the ancient wisdom of the Greaco-Arabic-Islamic sources and inheritance, on the one side, and the contemporary discernment of Occidental phenomenology of life, on the other, in a common dialogical effort to unravel this great enigma of existence. Papers by: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, William C. Chittick, Reza Akbarian, Daniela Verducci, Michael F. Andrews, Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei, Nader El-Bizri, Mehdi Aminrazavi, Massimo Durante, Abdul Rahim Afaki, Maria-Chiara Teloni, A.L. Samian, Kathleen Haney, Jad Hatem, Robert J. Dobie, Michel Dion. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The View from Nowhere: Ibn al-‘ArabĪ on the Soul’s Temporal Unfolding....Pages 3-10 The Great Metamorphosis of The Logos of Life in Ontopoietic Timing....Pages 11-71 Temporal Origination of the Material world and Mulla Sadra’s Trans-substantial Motion....Pages 73-92 The Timing of The Ontopoiesis of Life....Pages 93-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Edmund Husserl: The Genesis and Origin of Time....Pages 113-127 Time, Temporal, and Temporality....Pages 129-136 Some Phenomenological and Classical Corollaries on Time....Pages 137-155 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 MĪr Dāmād on Time and Temporality....Pages 159-165 Historical and Messianic Time: The Structure of Subjectivity and the Question of Judgement....Pages 167-193 The Historicality of Linguistic Signs and the Ahistoricality of Meanings: The Role of Divine Neologisms in the Making of Islamic-Arab Tradition....Pages 195-221 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Time and The Formation of the Human Person: a Comparison of Edith Stein’s and Martin Heidegger’s Thoughts....Pages 225-266 Virtues in Al-Biruni’s Philosophy of Science....Pages 267-283 The Ontopoietic Timing of Life Versus The Kairic Unfolding of The Trans-Natural Destiny (A-T. Tymieniecka)....Pages 285-294 Pure Love in Mulla Sadra....Pages 295-309 Front Matter....Pages 311-311 The Phenomenology of Wujud In the Thought of Ibn Al-‘Arabi....Pages 313-322 “Ibn Khaldûn’s Concept of History and the Qur’anic Notions of Economic Justice and Temporality”....Pages 323-340 Back Matter....Pages 341-344 The puzzling nature of temporality and timing of reality remains controversial. This book offers a collection of studies that seeks a new answer by initiating a novel investigation informed by the ancient wisdom of the Greaco-Arabic-Islamic sources and inheritance, on the one side, and the contemporary discernment of Occidental phenomenology of life, on the other, in a common dialogical effort to unravel this great enigma of existence.