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) 

Publication Information

Publisher

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

Frequency
Semiannual
Print ISSN
Online ISSN

Indexing and Abstracting

Keywords Cloud

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