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