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