عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
ALei1935
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Eternity - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Kukkonen, Taneli
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
(5,292 words)
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The concept of eternity served Muslim thinkers, from an early date, as a means of spelling out the difference between Creator and creation: God is eternal, while everything else has an origin in time. Both theological and philosophical considerations served to complicate this seemingly simple dichotomy. The terminology for eternity thus long remained fluid, allowing for further distinctions to be drawn, according to need and circumstance. Eternity past, eternal present, and future eternity all received their share of attention, and poets as well as philosophers probed the limits of the
SET
Title
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
International Standard Serial Number
9789004356665
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islam.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Kukkonen, Taneli
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Article]
275578
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