The opening chapter argues that the universe is a self-regulating system. Drawing on Ptolemy’s Harmonics and the Qur’anic concept of mizan (balance), the author posits that God (al-Kybernetes al-Awwal) maintains creation through feedback loops: actions return consequences, prayers return responses, seasons return cycles. This is teleological cybernetics.
For decades, Western scholarship has told a linear story: Cybernetics was born in the 1940s with Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine . However, neglected manuscripts like the hypothetical Ktab Mnb Aswl Alhkmt Wykybydya challenge this narrative. They hint at a forgotten golden thread—from the ḥikmah (wisdom) traditions of the Islamic Golden Age to the Kybernetes (steersman) of Greek origin, forming a pre-modern systems theory. ktab mnb aswl alhkmt wykybydya