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