KALĀM. In common usage kalām signifies speech, language, sentence, proposition, words, but in the field of Muslim religious thought it has two particular meanings: the word of God (kalām Allāh) and the science of...

Kalam (Arabic: کلام ) is one of the "religious sciences" (علم الكلم) of Islam. In Arabic the word means "talk". There are many interpretations of why it was called "kalam"; one of them is that the widest controversy in this field was about...

Woman of ASSOCIATED Newspapers articles published in June 2006 alleged that Hasnath, the brother of Abdulkahar Kalam (who was shot by the police when on false intelligence they raided his home on June 2, 2006) had attended a protest praising the 7/7 bombers...

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Pakistan must clamp down on Islamic militants and keep them from attacking India if peace efforts between the nuclear-armed rivals are to succeed, India's president said Friday, days after the bombing of a train linking the countries killed 68 people.Since the attack Sunday night on...

India's governing coalition chose a woman as its presidential candidate Thursday, setting the stage for her to become the country's first female president.Pratibha Patil, the governor of northwestern state of Rajashtan, was nominated by the Congress party and its allies for next month's presidential elections,...