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

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Director-in-Charge
Editor-in-Chief
Executive Director

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Semiannual
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Indexing and Abstracting

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