COSMIC UNITY AND MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS: REINTERPRETING FARGHANI’S COSMOLOGY THROUGH CHITTICK’S LENS
Ижтимоий-гуманитар фанларнинг долзарб муаммолари / Актуальные проблемы социально-гуманитарных наук / Actual Problems of Humanities and Social Sciences. December 1, 2025 DOI: 10.47390/spr1342v5si10y2025n42 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that Farghani's cosmology, read through Chittick's hermeneutics, treats waḥdat al-wujud not as abstract monism but as a cosmic order binding being to ethical responsibility, with the Muḥammadan Reality as the axis between divine manifestation and human vocation and dhikr as the movement from ontological awareness to moral agency. |
Abstract
This paper reexamines Saʿid al-Din al-Farghani’s cosmology through William C. Chittick’s hermeneutic analysis. Farghani views waḥdat al-wujud not as abstract monism but as a cosmic order linking being to ethical responsibility. His commentary on Ibn al-Fariḍ presents the Muḥammadan Reality as the axis connecting divine manifestation with human vocation. The study highlights dhikr as a movement from ontological awareness to moral agency. Farghani’s thought thus offers a unified philosophical model in which ontology and ethics mutually reinforce one another.