Kalam

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Beliefs and thought

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Ilm al-kalam or ilm al-lahut, often shortened to kalam, is the scholastic, speculative, or rational study of Islamic theology (aqida). It can also be defined as the science that studies the fundamental doctrines of Islamic faith (usul al-din), proving their validity, or refuting doubts regarding them.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Kalam”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Unknown artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.