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 57, Issue 2 - Serial Number 115, February 2026 (Autumn & Winter 2026) 

Publication Information

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Director-in-Charge
Editor-in-Chief
Executive Director

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Semiannual
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Indexing and Abstracting

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