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Kalam (islamic term)

Kalam 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, a little akin to the rabbinical tradition of ascertaining the law.

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