Kalām (Arabic: علم الكلام) is the Islamic philosophy of seeking theological principles through dialectic. In Arabic the word literally means "speech". A scholar of kalam is referred to as a mutakallim (Muslim theologian; plural mutakallimiin). There are many interpretations of why this discipline was called "kalam"; one of them is that the widest controversy in this field was about Allah's speech. The original scholars of kal… (More on Kalam)