Essays in Philosophy and Kalam

Essays in Philosophy and Kalam

The“Journal of Essays in Philosophy and Kalam” is an academic publication issued by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The journal focuses on scholarly research in the fields of philosophy and Islamic theology (Kalam), providing a platform for in-depth discussions on contemporary theological issues, transcendental philosophy, comparative theology, symmetric theology, philosophy of theology, and related areas. The journal welcomes contributions from researchers and promotes interdisciplinary dialogue between traditional Islamic thought and contemporary philosophical inquiries.

Current Issue: Volume 58, Issue 1 - Serial Number 116, September 2026, Pages 13-277 (Spring & Summer 2026) 

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Indexing and Abstracting

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  • Mullā Ṣadrā
  • intellect
  • Mullā Ṣadrā
  • existence
  • soul
  • Avicenna
  • Knowledge
  • causality
  • Epistemology
  • unity
  • God
  • imagination
  • Mulla Sadra
  • Happiness
  • Religion
  • Philosophy
  • individual unity of existence
  • Justice
  • Aristotle
  • perception
  • Mullā Sadrā
  • Ethics
  • Ibn ‘Arabī
  • Transcendent philosophy
  • substantial motion
  • Imamate
  • Revelation
  • Divine knowledge
  • Ibn Sīnā
  • unity of existence
  • Principles
  • Kant
  • principality of existence
  • Ayatollah Javadi Amoli
  • acquired knowledge
  • active intellect
  • Plato
  • Education
  • annihilation
  • form
  • multiplicity
  • love
  • manifestation
  • universals
  • Subject
  • Hermeneutics
  • will
  • Primacy of Existence
  • virtue
  • rationality
  • Allameh Tabataba\'i
  • Allameh Tabatabaei
  • faith
  • Beauty
  • Gadamer
  • intuition
  • interpretation
  • infallibility
  • Resurrection
  • quiddity
  • Equilibrium
  • thought
  • Suhrawardī
  • knowledge by presence
  • Ṣadr al-Muti’allihīn
  • Theology
  • Plotinus
  • free will
  • essential attributes
  • Hyle
  • Fārābī
  • actuality
  • human being
  • religious experience
  • Shabestari
  • traditions
  • Cosmo-philosophical
  • intermediaries
  • pragmatism
  • Ibn Sina
  • cognation
  • correspondence
  • action
  • Muʿtazila
  • Prayer
  • cause
  • Ontology
  • truth
  • Practice
  • essential transformation
  • al-Ghazālī
  • emanation
  • sensation
  • abstraction
  • four–dimensionalism
  • the first emanation
  • immortality
  • the Necessary Being
  • philosopher
  • rationalism
  • Imam
  • Islamic mysticism
  • Language
  • imperfect souls
  • zealotry
  • rational perception
  • conjecture
  • Induction
  • Divine Will
  • Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
  • essence
  • world of intellects
  • Hume
  • Mysticism
  • Al-Ghazali
  • the rule of one
  • matter and form
  • religious language
  • Fiṭrah
  • prophecy
  • substantial motion of the soul
  • man
  • History
  • Phenomenology
  • pain
  • Islamic philosophy
  • faculty of imagination
  • Logos
  • philosophy of illumination
  • Schleiermacher
  • Primacy of Quiddity
  • method
  • absolute existence
  • quantum physics
  • Comparison
  • transcendental philosophy
  • Speech
  • Fakhr Rāzī
  • Guardianship
  • Time
  • knowledge of the soul
  • Imāmiyya
  • light and darkness
  • Self-knowledge
  • matter
  • reason
  • Akhund Khurāsānī
  • human perfection
  • Potentiality
  • potentiality and actuality
  • motion
  • language of religion
  • union
  • pleasure
  • creation
  • existent
  • Ṭūsī
  • Gradation of Existence
  • perspective
  • Fayaz Lahiji
  • Perfection
  • death
  • Metaphysics
  • Sufism
  • Islam
  • simple and compound knowledge
  • relativism
  • goodness
  • subjectivism
  • consciousness
  • recognition
  • realism
  • infinite
  • philosophical counseling
  • Heraclitus
  • analogy
  • Evolution
  • simple reality
  • Disclosure
  • reincarnation
  • Qayṣarī
  • essentialism
  • Divine preservation of Beings
  • reconciliation between tanzīh (transcendence) and tashbīh (anthropomorphism)
  • logical positivism
  • Monotheistic ethics
  • John Searle
  • transcendental
  • the relation of intellect and will to God
  • unified matter
  • reasonable second
  • savoring (iltidhādh)
  • imām al-‘ālam
  • Gradation
  • Critique of methodologism
  • devotional thoughts
  • argument through joining and separation
  • social classes
  • issues
  • Awe