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