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
  • existence
  • intellect
  • Mullā Ṣadrā
  • Avicenna
  • Knowledge
  • causality
  • Epistemology
  • unity
  • Mulla Sadra
  • Religion
  • God
  • imagination
  • Philosophy
  • Happiness
  • Imamate
  • Justice
  • Mullā Sadrā
  • Ibn ‘Arabī
  • Ethics
  • individual unity of existence
  • Aristotle
  • Transcendent philosophy
  • perception
  • Divine knowledge
  • Kant
  • intuition
  • Ayatollah Javadi Amoli
  • unity of existence
  • Principles
  • substantial motion
  • principality of existence
  • Revelation
  • Ibn Sīnā
  • acquired knowledge
  • infallibility
  • Ṣadr al-Muti’allihīn
  • annihilation
  • form
  • essential attributes
  • Hermeneutics
  • love
  • knowledge by presence
  • rationality
  • Allameh Tabataba\'i
  • Theology
  • multiplicity
  • Gadamer
  • Education
  • faith
  • universals
  • free will
  • Allameh Tabatabaei
  • Beauty
  • quiddity
  • manifestation
  • interpretation
  • Plato
  • Resurrection
  • Subject
  • active intellect
  • Primacy of Existence
  • will
  • thought
  • Suhrawardī
  • Language
  • the first emanation
  • matter and form
  • Sufism
  • substantial motion of the soul
  • Fārābī
  • Heraclitus
  • Ontology
  • Metaphysics
  • world of intellects
  • Fayaz Lahiji
  • absolute existence
  • philosopher
  • realism
  • essential transformation
  • recognition
  • Al-Ghazali
  • existent
  • correspondence
  • actuality
  • abstraction
  • Akhund Khurāsānī
  • imperfect souls
  • Self-knowledge
  • the Necessary Being
  • Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
  • al-Ghazālī
  • Islamic mysticism
  • death
  • Phenomenology
  • Schleiermacher
  • emanation
  • goodness
  • cognation
  • Plotinus
  • the rule of one
  • man
  • motion
  • Relation
  • Islamic philosophy
  • Time
  • idea
  • Cosmo-philosophical
  • Divine Will
  • Shabestari
  • subjectivism
  • Ṭūsī
  • Practice
  • Hyle
  • Prayer
  • Mysticism
  • Potentiality
  • consciousness
  • sensation
  • faculty of imagination
  • religious experience
  • Perfection
  • prophecy
  • Fakhr Rāzī
  • infinite
  • immortality
  • action
  • four–dimensionalism
  • essence
  • knowledge of the soul
  • language of religion
  • virtue
  • simple and compound knowledge
  • Qayṣarī
  • religious language
  • matter
  • pleasure
  • traditions
  • History
  • Evolution
  • truth
  • creation
  • Ibn Sina
  • rational perception
  • Induction
  • reincarnation
  • light and darkness
  • Imam
  • pain
  • perspective
  • human
  • transcendental philosophy
  • relativism
  • quantum physics
  • philosophy of illumination
  • conjecture
  • cause
  • proportion
  • Hume
  • Logos
  • Speech
  • union
  • simple reality
  • analogy
  • pragmatism
  • Islam
  • Equilibrium
  • zealotry
  • method
  • Guardianship
  • Fiṭrah
  • Comparison
  • Primacy of Quiddity
  • reason
  • individualism
  • exclusivism
  • natural substance
  • witness principle
  • credibility principle
  • mechanical cause
  • Structure
  • absolute and restricted paradigm
  • dream
  • fourfold causes
  • identity
  • rational incorporeity
  • purgatorial incorporeity
  • ultimate explanation
  • corporeal createdness
  • artist
  • subjective
  • Zeno of Citium
  • meaningfulness on the addressee’s level
  • Zeno the Great
  • meaningfulness on the speaker’s level
  • pattern
  • Persistence
  • Heraclius
  • Herqil the Wise