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Kalam (other)
Kalam or Ilm al-Kalam (lit. "science of discourse") is a term for methodic theology in Islam. Kalam may also refer to: Philosophy *Kalam cosmological argument, a cosmological argument for the existence of God rooted in the Ilm al-Kalam heritage *Jewish Kalam, an early medieval style of Jewish philosophy that evolved in response to the Islamic Kalam, which in turn was a reaction against Aristotelian philosophy Languages *Kalam languages, a small family of languages spoken in New Guinea **Kalam language, one of the Kalam languages spoken in New Guinea Places *Kalam (union council), an administrative unit in Swat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Kalam Valley, a valley along the upper reaches of the Swat River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Kalam, East Azerbaijan, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran *Kalam, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran *Kolm-e Bala, a village in Ilam Province, Iran *Kolm-e Pain, a village in Ilam Province, Iran People *Kalam Bey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalam
''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ( ar, عِلْم الكَلام, literally "science of discourse"), usually foreshortened to ''Kalām'' and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is the philosophical study of Islamic doctrine (aqa'id''). It was born out of the need to establish and defend the tenets of the Islamic faith against the philosophical doubters. However, this picture has been increasingly questioned by scholarship that attempts to show that kalām was in fact a demonstrative rather than a dialectical science and was always intellectually creative. The Arabic term ''Kalām'' means "speech, word, utterance" among other things. There are many possible interpretations as to why this discipline was originally called so; one is that one of the widest controversies in this discipline, in the second and third centuries of Hijra, has been about whether the "Word of God" (''Kalām Allāh''), as revealed in the Quran, is an eternal attribute of God and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
