Mohamed Haj Yousef

Mohemed Haj Yousef is a writer and researcher interested in physics, cosmology, philosophy and Islamic thought, especially with regard to mysticism and Ibn al-Arabi. He studied physics in Syria and earned the B.Sc. degree in Solid State Physics from the University of Aleppo in 1989 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Electronics from the same university in 1990, then he obtained the Master's degree in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics from the University of Cambridge in the UK in 1992. After a period of teaching, he resumed to get the PhD from the University of Exeter in UK in the year 2005, where he studied the concept of time in Ibn al-Arabi's cosmology and compared it with modern theories of physics and cosmology. Soon after that he published his second book on the subject of time after the more general book on Sufi mysticism that was published in 1999.

The author has published numerous articles in Arabic and English that combines science, philosophy and Islamic thought. Most of these articles are accessible online at: http://www.smonad.com and http://www.ibnalarabi.com.

The author has also published several books on the subject of time in Islamic thought, and other related subjects, including: The Sufi Interpretation of Joseph Story (The Path of the Heart), The Sun from the West: Biography of

Ibn al-Arabi and His Doctrine, Ibn Arabi - Time and Cosmology, That Is All Indeed: what the seeker

needs, The Meccan Revelations: (introduction plus translation of volume 1 of

37), The Days of God, The Discloser of Desires (translation of Turjuman al-Ashwaq), The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos, and DUALITY OF TIME: Complex-Time

Geometry and Perpetual Creation of Space.