sentences:  In all likelihood, they were simply known by the Arabic term "Mutakallimūn" "Kalamists", as they are referred to by Maimonides and other Jewish writers.The best known practitioner of Jewish Kalam was Saadia Gaon, and Jewish Kalam represented the philosophical battlefield upon which Saadia attacked the proponents of Karaite Judaism.Maimonides in his "The Guide for the Perplexed" frequently references and disputes positions of Kalam, both Jewish and Muslim, and in general conveys an opinion of Kalam that is highly uncomplimentary.