Sacred Texts as Civilizational Algorithms: A Cybernetic–Theological ‎Analysis of the Opening Invocation of Jawshan Kabir

This article develops a conceptual, systems-theoretic, and governance-oriented interpretation of ‎the opening invocation of Jawshan Kabir. The study addresses a central gap in contemporary ‎governance and resilience scholarship: the persistence of operational sophistication without ‎sufficient ontological grounding. In response, it proposes Civilizational Algorithm Theory (CAT) ‎as a framework for translating sacred semantic structures into governance-relevant conceptual ‎architecture. Methodologically, the article adopts a qualitative conceptual design based on ‎purposive textual sampling and document analysis. The opening invocation is treated as a ‎bounded proof-of-concept corpus, and its ten divine attributes are analyzed through semantic ‎extraction, theological hermeneutics, cybernetic mapping, and conceptual systems modeling. The ‎findings show that the invocation forms a coherent sequence of ontological grounding, mercy ‎distribution, targeted care, value generation, stabilization, scale, temporal continuity, epistemic ‎awareness, corrective restraint, and purposive wisdom. These functions are further translated into ‎governance roles and KPI-style evaluative variables. The study contributes theoretically by ‎linking Islamic theological semantics with cybernetic systems thinking, methodologically by ‎offering a replicable ontology-to-governance translation model, and practically by outlining a ‎normative design framework relevant to institutional resilience, strategic evaluation, and complex ‎governance environments. The article concludes that sacred invocational language may be read ‎not only devotionally, but also as a compressed architecture of legitimate and sustainable order‎

کلیدواژه ها:

Jawshan Kabir ، Civilizational Algorithm Theory (CAT) ، Islamic theology ، cybernetics ، ‎governance ، key performance indicators (KPIs) ، civilizational sustainability.‎