About SMONAD

The project and its purpose

SMONAD is the research and educational website of Mohamed Haj Yousef. It brings together the Single Monad Model of the Cosmos (SMM), Duality of Time Theory (DTT), books, papers, explanatory articles and tools for following the arguments.

The project grows from a study of Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi’s writings and a continuing interest in astronomy, cosmology and the nature of time. Its historical work seeks to make that intellectual heritage accessible to readers of Arabic and English; its theoretical work examines how a common generative foundation could give rise to geometry, matter and observable change.

Readers can enter through a philosophical question, a mathematical construction, an original publication or a visual explanation. The purpose of the collection is to make those routes connect, with enough context to understand the question and enough detail to examine the reasoning.

How the project developed

The original About page records a programme that began in the early 1990s. These milestones describe its historical development:

• 1999: the first Arabic book, The Path of the Heart, explored a Sufi reading of the story of Joseph.
• 2006: Shams-ul-Maghrib (The Sun from the West) presented a biography of Ibn al-Arabi.
• 2007: research on Ibn al-Arabi’s conception of time and cosmology developed into the Single Monad Model.
• 2012: a biography of Sheikh Ramadan Subhi Deeb continued the study of the mystical path and its teachers.
• 2017: Duality of Time Theory extended the research programme.

The historical account also describes work on an English translation of The Meccan Revelations, including the difficulty of translating and indexing this extensive text. It records draft work, rather than a completed translation of the whole collection.

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Questions that guide the research

The central question is how a world of spatial relations, physical clocks and persistent records could arise from a common process. Within SMM/DTT, the distinction between inner generation and outer observable succession organizes this investigation.

• Time and geometry: what structure is needed to connect generative order with a spatial description and a measurable clock?
• Quantum structure: which assumptions determine the state space, admissible operations and observed records?
• Symmetry and physical quantities: how can a mathematical selection be connected to a quantity with a defined normalization, scale and observable meaning?
• Explanation and interpretation: how do a historical reading, a philosophical premise and a formal result contribute to the argument?

The research programme, derivations and papers provide the assumptions and source references behind these questions. The editorial standards explain how the website identifies the scope of a claim and records open work.

Find your route into the work

For a visual introduction, visit the gallery, animations and video presentations. New notes appear in the research blog; email updates and RSS offer ways to follow them.

An invitation to collaborate

I welcome collaboration with experts in physics, mathematics, and philosophy. I am interested in work that sharpens the definitions, strengthens the mathematical arguments and develops the connection between a proposed model and physical interpretation.

Physics

Quantum foundations, relativity, cosmology, physical clocks, measurement and the interpretation of model quantities. Useful contributions include a precise comparison with an established formulation or a carefully defined physical consequence.

Mathematics

Operator theory, real and complex Hilbert structures, dynamical systems, geometry, topology and symmetry. Collaborations can focus on a proof, a counterexample, a construction, a limiting argument or an independently reproducible calculation.

Philosophy and intellectual history

The nature of time, identity, causation, unity and multiplicity, and the relation between metaphysical interpretation and scientific explanation. Expertise in Ibn al-Arabi, Arabic texts and translation is also welcome.

A useful first message identifies the question or source passage, your relevant expertise and the contribution you would like to develop. Critical objections and alternative derivations are welcome when their assumptions and supporting arguments are clear.

Related projects and original resources

The wider collection connects the contemporary research with its textual and historical background. These are the related projects identified in the original account:

Use Resources & related sites for further entry points, and the Arabic section for Arabic introductions and reading.

Policies and editorial standards

The following pages explain how to use and cite the material, how information is handled, and how research claims are presented.