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