Kalam

Kalam (Arabic: کلام ) is one of the "religious sciences" (علم الكلم) of Islam. In Arabic the word means "speaking". There are many interpretations of why it was called 'kalam'; one of them is that the widest controversy in this field was about Allah's speech. 'Kalam' refers to the Islamic tradition of seeking theological principles through dialectic. A scholar of kalam is referred to as a mutakallim (Muslim theologian; plural mutakallimiin).