kalam
,
lit. speech,
something spoken; in
diction &
language:
parlance;
talk,
discourse; in
grammar, a
sentence; also, a
quasi inference. A
powerful movement within
Islamic thought (sometimes imperfectly translated as Islamic
scholasticism).
cilm-al-kalam: a science in which one investigates the Being and attributes of God, and the conditions of possible things with respect to creation and restitution.