He has managed the first Afghan intellectuals magazine, Rayehey-e-azadi:the smell of freedom by international co-editorial staff for more than two years. He, also has published five books showing the author's intellectual trend. His dozens of articles have been published in scholarly and scientific journals. Akhlaq is the first Afghan philosopher that presented papers in The XXII World Congress of Philosophy and Catholic University of America. He, also, has published several papers on several profound websites like openDemocracy and HuffingtonPost. Prof. Akhlaq is a professional member of American Academy of Religion and American Philosophical Association.
Published works
From Rumi to Nietzsche : A collection of comparative articles seeking to dialogue between among tradition, modernity and postmodernity by selecting human subjects such as life, human rights, intuition, religion, rationality and freedom. Mawlana and Suhravardi are selected from traditional world and Kant from modern world and Nietzsche and Heidegger from postmodern world. These articles presented before in international conferences, and because of the new reading from the above-said philosophers, they were very welcomed.
The Tradition of Enlightenment in the West and Islam : This book make a comparison between the Islamic peripatetic philosophy and the enlightenment philosophy of the eighteenth century, in detail. That means it is seeking to present a philosophical reading from the western modernity and enlightened intellectual reading from the Islamic philosophy. In the fact, this book criticizes two dominated thinking on the Islamic world: this fact that the outrace of Islamic philosophy is transcendent wisdom and the matter that Islamic philosophy is not but Islamic theology and accordingly philosophy. Also, it has a positivistic look at the enlightenment philosophy and its latent redeemer matters.
From tradition of Balkh to modernity of Paris : this book has been published by Nebras organization and saied publication in Kabul and includes ten research articles. First article is about differences and similarities among literature, philosophy and criticism. The second one compare and study three important thinking personality who has been effective in Afghanistan and discuss them from the point of view of their utility for this country. Its two last Article study the notions of Al-Afghani and criticize him while they are mentioning important and helpful points of his ideas. Other articles take a comparative look at the opinions of Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali, Mawlana with Machiavelli, intellectuals and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This book discusses very new ideas such as earthen look at Al-Farabi's policy, or Ibn Roshd's idea of progress which is really controversial by itself among scholars. Above-said books try to institutionalize dialogue among cultures, modern and pre-modern world, Islam and west and also open a way to a kind of inward looking and domestic development.
