The 102nd issue of the peer-reviewed quarterly Zehn (Mind), Vol. 26 (2025), has been published in Persian by the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. Since its establishment in 2000, it has been the only specialized journal of epistemology in Iran. Adopting an academic and comparative perspective, the journal revisits and develops the foundations of Islamic epistemology while critically engaging with classical, contemporary, and modern schools of thought. It also extends to related domains, including philosophy of mind, cognitive science, philosophy of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
This issue was published under the editorship of Alireza Qaeminia. Ali Akbar Rashad serves as the Director-in-Charge, with an editorial board comprising Gholamreza Fayyazi, Ahmad Beheshti, Hamidreza Ayatollahi, Abdolhossein Khosropanah, Abolfazl Kiyashemshaki, Seyyed Yahya Yasrebi, and Hossein Oshshaqi.
Articles in this issue cover topics such as:
- The Nature and Place of The Spiritual Intellect in Spiritual Wayfaring;
- Evaluation of Doxastic Compatibilism in The Relationship Between Will and Beliefs;
- Criticism of the Paradigms of The Humanities Based on Human Fitra in The Quran (With Emphasis on Politics);
- An Analytical Study of The Essentialist and Conventionalist Approaches to The Attribution of Disclosure to Knowledge;
- Cognitive Analysis of The Conceptual Metaphors of Prayer in The Qur’an and Hadiths with An Educational Approach;
- The Effect of Preconceptions on The Understanding of Texts and Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory.
Full articles are available at: https://zehn.iict.ac.ir/?lang=en.
