From Doxological Legitimacy to Bountiful Sovereignty: A Civilizational Algorithm Theory Analysis of the Eighth Section of Jawshan Kabir

This article reconstructs the eighth section of Jawshan Kabir as a bounded sacred semantic architecture within the framework of Civilizational Algorithm Theory (CAT). Rather than reading the section as a cumulative devotional list of divine epithets, the study argues that it encodes an ordered movement from doxological legitimacy to glory, covenantal fidelity, restorative mercy, benefactive bestowal, judicial closure, enduring sovereignty, generosity, and finally bounty and blessing. Methodologically, the article adopts a qualitative, conceptual, and design-science-oriented approach grounded in bounded corpus delimitation, textual segmentation, morphology-sensitive reading, semantic clustering, Qur’anic intertextual control, theological synthesis, and downstream systems, governance, and civilizational translation. The findings demonstrate that the section is internally organized as a directed semantic network rather than a flat chain of co-rhyming names. Praise and laudation serve as the entry node of legitimacy, covenant functions as the relational pivot, judgment as the decisional core, enduring might as the resilience anchor, and bounty and blessing as the terminal horizon of distributed beneficence. The article contributes theoretically by extending the CAT/Jawshan corpus into a more explicit architecture of legitimacy, trust, repair, closure, durable order, and flourishing. Methodologically, it demonstrates how a compact liturgical passage may be translated into an auditable theology-to-governance pathway without collapsing theological discourse into managerial instrumentalism. Practically, it offers a principle-bound vocabulary for dialogue architecture, restorative governance, resilience design, institutional legitimacy, and civilizational evaluation.