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 

Publication Information

Publisher

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

Frequency
Semiannual
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Indexing and Abstracting

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