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Kalām (Arabic: علم الكلام, literally "speech" or "words") is the Islamic discipline of seeking theological knowledge through dialectic (debate and argument). It also promotes prudence and logical reasoning. A practitioner of kalām is called a mutakallim (plural mutakallimiin).

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    Sa'id Foudah, a contemporary Ash'ari scholar of kalam (Islamic systematic theology).

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Kalam para niños

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