Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Explaining the relationship between theoretical foundations and practical patterns of progress is one of the fundamental challenges in Islamic humanities. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi's thought, due to its reliance on the originality of the abstract self and its definition of evolution as a spiritual matter, has unique capacities for producing an alternative model of progress. Using a descriptive-analytical method and a rational reconstruction approach, this research aims to explain the relationship between anthropological foundations and the pattern of progress and its knowledge requirements from his perspective. Utilizing deductive logic, in this process, an attempt has been made to discover the binding implications of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi's anthropological principles in the field of policymaking and humanities and to formulate them in the form of a coherent model. The research findings show that there is a logical connection between the fundamental anthropological layers, macro strategies, and knowledge models. According to this model, applying anthropological principles to development issues leads to two related outcomes: First, at the level of the progress model (P), it leads to the inference of a culture-oriented model in which spiritual evolution (divine proximity) is the ultimate goal and material progress has the status of an instrument; second, at the level of knowledge requirements (K), the logical association of this model with the necessity of transformation in the humanities and the production of indigenous-Islamic progress knowledge is proven. The article argues that, due to the contradiction between subject and purpose, secular development knowledge is inherently ineffective for guiding the paradigm of excellence-oriented progress, and that epistemological revision in the humanities is not a choice but a structural necessity.