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Kalām (Arabic: علم الكلام, literally "speech" or "words")[1] is the Islamic discipline of seeking theological knowledge through dialectic (debate and argument). It also promotes prudence and logical reasoning. A practitioner of kalām is called a mutakallim (plural mutakallimiin).
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[change | change source]- ↑ Wolfson, Harry Austryn (1976). The Philosophy of the Kalam. Harvard University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780674665804.