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Work #480 · Late

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions)

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā)
c. 1030 · Arabic
Philosophical-mystical work · Islamic Peripatetic / Eastern philosophy

Avicenna's 11th-c. late mature work — Sufi-affined mystical philosophy

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Attribute Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions) (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions)

The mystical time of gnostic ascent (maqāmāt).

Space

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions)

The hierarchical space of gnostic stations.

Matter

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions)

Embodied gnostic-ascending self.

Observer

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions)

The gnostic (ʿārif).

Energy

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions)

Energies of mystical ascent.

Information

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions)

Mystical-philosophical framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions)

Avicenna's late mystical turn cultivated by Suhrawardī and Mullā Ṣadrā in the Eastern (Iranian) tradition.