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Kalam Schools
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The principal schools of Islamic speculative theology, kalam: Ashari and Maturidi, the two schools most Sunni theologians came to accept; Athari, which refuses speculative method in favour of the plain sense of scripture; and Mutazila, the earlier rationalist school whose positions on divine attributes and human free action the other three were formed answering.
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