Kalām 's the Islamic philosophy of seeking Islamic theological principles through dialectic. In Arabic the word literally means "speech". A scholar of kalam's referred to as a mutakallim (Muslim theologian; plural mutakallimiin). There're many interpretations of why this discipline was called "kalam"; one of them's that the widest controversy in this field was about Allah's speech. This word also means the same thing in Indonesian language and used by Indonesian Moslem (for example Al-Kala… (More on Kalam)