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ILM al-KALAM (8490 words) |
 | The doctors of kalam (mutakallimun) themselves were to take a very similar view: this is one of many well-known definitions: 'kalam is the science which is concerned with firmly establishing religious beliefs by adducing proofs and with banishing doubts' (from the Mawaqif of al-_dhi, 8th/14th cent.). |
| Kalam) the atomic theory (nor that of the 'modes') which characterizes the mutakallimun, but their primary concern to engage in disputation and argument to defend the faith against the zanadiqa of the period, the 'free-thinkers' inspired by Mazdeism or Manicheism, and later by pure Greek rationalism. |
| Kalam, based as it is upon its function of defensive apologia, does not hold the leading place in Muslim thought that theology does in Christianity. |
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Kalam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (122 words) |
| Kalam (علم الكلم) in Arabic means speech or discourse and refers to the Islamic tradition of seeking theological principles through dialectic. |
| It also refers to the trend in Islamic thought of scholasticism, somewhat akin to the rabbinical tradition of ascertaining the law. |
| Followers of Kalam are referred to as Mutakallimun. |
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