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Islam: Chapter Five: Kalām: The Statements of the Theologians: Introduction

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The word usually used for scholastic theology--kalām--is, like sharī’a, the common term for the Law, late in making its appearance. This does not mean that there was no early Islamic theology. Rather, both Law and theology were at first comprised in the term fiqh (in-sight), which embraced right action and right belief.

Islam: Chapter Five: Kalām: The Statements of the Theologians: Introduction

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