Kalam
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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).
The original scholars of kalam were recruited by Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (d. 873 AD) for the House of Wisdom under the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad.
[edit] Major kalam schools
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- Philosophy of Kalam — textbook by Harry Wolfson.
- Living Islam
- The Kalam
- Kalam Cosmological Argument
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