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) 

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