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kalam
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kalam

Islamic speculative theology. It arose during the Umayyad dynasty over varying interpretations of the Qur'an and over questions the Qur'an provoked, including those on predestination, free will, and the nature of God. The most prominent early school was the 8th-century Mu'tazilah, which asserted the supremacy of reason, championed free will, and rejected an anthropomorphic characterization of God. The 10th-century school of Ash'ariyyah moved kalam back toward traditional faith, accepting, for example, the eternal, uncreated nature of the Qur'an and its literal truth. The school also represented the successful adaptation of Hellenistic philosophical reasoning to Muslim orthodox theology.



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Here, his geometrical arguments for atomism are presented along with an explanation as to why the mutakallimun as a whole, even until today, are so committed to atomism and occasionalism.
Atomism versus hylomorphism in the kalam of al-Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: ... by Setia, 'Adi / Islam & Science
Many of those charged with zandaqa were Mutakallimun - theologians, such as Ibn Talout, Abu Shakir, his nephew Ibn al-A'da al-Kharizi, Nu'man ibn Abi al-Awja', and Salih ibn Abd al-Quddus.
Religious inquisition as social policy: the persecution of the ... by Ibrahim, Mahmood / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
In Kalam, the term denotes eternity of the world (meaning a denial of creation in time), a concept most mutakallimun reject, affirming the beginning in time of bodies and the world created by God, Who alone can be said to be Eternal.
In the beginning: Islamic perspectives on cosmological origins--II by Iqbal, Muzaffar / Islam & Science
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