Ibn al-Arabi treats time, change and cosmic order in many settings, including spiritual stations, creation and the relation of events to divine action. Terms translated as “renewal” or “new creation” can suggest changing disclosure, but they do not automatically constitute a modern physical theory of spacetime.
How to study this subject
These terms belong to a network of Qur’anic language, theological argument, spiritual experience and philosophical interpretation. An apparently familiar modern translation may distort their range. Begin with the exact Arabic expression, check the passage’s genre and purpose, and then compare explanatory traditions without collapsing their disagreements.
A good conceptual study compares several occurrences of the term across distinct passages and identifies the question each passage answers. Then review how translators and commentators explain it, noting which interpretation is their own. Distinguish statements about being, language, knowledge and religious practice; a single diagram or modern analogy cannot replace the vocabulary’s textual history.
Separate the historical vocabulary from any contemporary philosophical or scientific comparison. A productive comparison explicitly marks the analogy, its textual basis and where the modern mathematical model goes beyond the medieval source.
Primary sources and further reading
These are contextual reading links, not exact passage-level citations.