回儒宇宙观:“大世界”的生成与真主的显化

The Cosmology of Hui Confucian:The Generation of“Big World”and Explication of Allah

"大世界"是伊斯兰哲学中用以阐释宇宙起源思想的重要概念。明清时期的回儒知识分子就是用"大世界"术语,表述宇宙是如何生成的。他们首先坚持伊斯兰的"真主创世说",将宇宙的生成视为真主创造的结果;同时坚持伊斯兰的"显化论",将宇宙的生成视为真主不断显化的结果,显化的过程经历了"纯一世界"、"性理世界"、"形色世界"等阶段。

The ＂Big World＂was an important concept to explain the origin of the universe in Islamic philosophy.Hui Confucian used this word to describe how the universe was generated during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the first place, they thought the generation of universe was the result of Allah＇s creation. At the same time, they insisted on the theory of explication, and considered the generation of universe resulted from the explication of Allah, which had gone through three stages： the world only had Allah, the Hsing Li＇s world and the physical world.