kalam

Kalam (Arabic: کلام ) is one of the "religious sciences" (علم الكلم) of Islam. In Arabic the word means "speaking". There are many interpretations of why it was called "kalam"; one of them is that the widest controversy in this field was about Allah's speech. "Kalam" refers to the Islamic tradition of seeking theological principles through dialectic. A scholar of kalam is referred to as a mutakallim (Muslim theologian; plural mutakallimiin).
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n. kalam

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