Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life

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.

tal phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life. No simple historical comparative study, but focussing upon the meeting of intuitions in these two divergent philosophical areas underling their theories We prepare a unique forum bringing together Islamic Metaphysics and Occidental Phenomenology in a scholarly dialogue Focusing upon the intuition in-depth of great philosophical ideas and theories in these two divergent fields should lead to the deepening and harmonizing of their insights The collection provides also a succinct overview of the conceptions of timing of life and temporality in a historical survey of both areas Bringing out the phenomenon of change in our experience of the temporal unfolding of reality brings a challenge to the ancient classic and contemporary conception of temporality of life tied to some metaphysical conceptions of time and being. Consequently, the temporality of the real calls for an essential revision The classic conception of temporality referring to an absolute primacy of time in reality stretches over the entire metaphysical field of investigation from the infinitely small to the infinitely great. Islamic Metaphysics covers this entire expansion whereas contemporary continental thought truncates the dimension of the infinitely great, making their dialogue impossible. We are bringing here, in contrast, the new philosophy of phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life, which revealing the logos of life the reason of all reasons as the thread running through the All, offers a unique in our time platform for a dialogue between Islamic Metaphysics and continen

Autorentext
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

Inhalt
Section I.- The View from Nowhere: Ibn al-'Arab? on the Soul's Temporal Unfolding.- The Great Metamorphosis of The Logos of Life in Ontopoietic Timing.- Temporal Origination of the Material world and Mulla Sadra's Trans-substantial Motion.- The Timing of The Ontopoiesis of Life.- Section II.- Edmund Husserl: The Genesis and Origin of Time.- Time, Temporal, and Temporality.- Some Phenomenological and Classical Corollaries on Time.- Section III.- M?r D?m?d on Time and Temporality.- Historical and Messianic Time: The Structure of Subjectivity and the Question of Judgement.- The Historicality of Linguistic Signs and the Ahistoricality of Meanings: The Role of Divine Neologisms in the Making of Islamic-Arab Tradition.- Section IV.- Time and The Formation of the Human Person: a Comparison of Edith Stein's and Martin Heidegger's Thoughts.- Virtues in Al-Biruni's Philosophy of Science.- The Ontopoietic Timing of Life Versus The Kairic Unfolding of The Trans-Natural Destiny (A-T. Tymieniecka).-Pure Love in Mulla Sadra.- Section V.- The Phenomenology of Wujud In the Thought of Ibn Al-'Arabi.- Ibn Khaldûn's Concept of History and the Qur'anic Notions of Economic Justice and Temporality.