ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses esotericism within Islamic context. The focus is particularly on how the temporal elements of the soul and afterlife are conceptualised in Islamic esotericism. Several parallels between the Western theological-philosophical canon and Islamic philosophy, beginning from Meister Eckhart, are taken up, and an argument is made that Edith Stein’s phenomenology in particular can be illuminating when thinking about soul and time in the Islamic context. Stein’s peculiar conception of the Aevum can be interpreted as parallel to the Muslim conception of the Barzakh, which allows a fruitful exchange of ideas to both directions.
