Sebastian Gunther
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Gunther |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunther |
| SIGNATURE | GUNTHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1University of Halle (Saale) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2415-232X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Al-Ghazālī on Logic as a Means of Learning
Renowned for his profound scholarship, the philosophical theologian and mystic Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) has significantly influenced Islamic thought and education for centuries. This article presents a novel approach to studying his body of works. It analyzes six of al-Ghazālī’s key works on logic in chronological order, offering a fresh perspective on his views on reasoning. Additionally, the study explicitly focuses on al-Ghazālī’s co…
Al-Ghazālī on Logic as a Means of Learning
Renowned for his profound scholarship, the philosophical theologian and mystic Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) has significantly influenced Islamic thought and education for centuries. This article presents a novel approach to studying his body of works. It analyzes six of al-Ghazālī’s key works on logic in chronological order, offering a fresh perspective on his views on reasoning. Additionally, the study explicitly focuses on al-Ghazālī’s co…
Textual Endings as Persuasive Educational Beginnings
The Brethren of Purity, a circle of high-ranking 9th and 10th-century scholars from the Iraqi port city of Basra, is renowned for having produced an immense literary corpus of encyclopedic erudition: the Rasāʾīl Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ . The wide range of religious and non-religious subjects of these Epistles, the questions as to the identity of their authors and intended addressees, as well as the specifics of the language and literary devices character…
Islamic Ethics as Educational Discourse
This edited volume offers expert insights into core questions of ethics, education, and religion during what is often termed the »Golden Age« of Islamic culture and intellectual history. It focuses on the scholarly oeuvre of the Muslim philosopher and historian Miskawayh (d. 1030), who is known in the contemporary Muslim world as the »founder of Islamic ethics«. Written by internationally renowned scholars in Islamic studies, the chapters trace t…
Lesen, Deuten und Verstehen?!
Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht die Konzepte, Methoden und Inhalte der Auslegung autoritativer religiöser Texte in Antike und Mittelalter. Diese Texte sind Ausgangs- und Ansatzpunkte in Unterweisungen, die zur Orientierung und Identitätsbildung dienen, dem Einzelnen ebenso wie Gemeinschaften und Gesellschaften. Fachvertreterinnen und Fachvertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen - aus Geschichte, Philologie, Orientalistik, Religionswissenscha…
Das Paradies ist ein Hörsaal für die Seelen«
Religionskulturen der Antike und des Mittelalters sind eng mit dem Bildungsthema verknüpft - in ganz unterschiedlicher Weise. Wie hängen Bildung und Religion zusammen, welche Bildungsgüter und -wege gelten aus religiöser Sicht als erstrebenswert (oder auch als gefährlich), und wer sind die Akteure in diesem Feld? Diesen und verwandten Fragen widmet sich dieser interdisziplinäre Sammelband mit besonderem Augenmerk auf den institutionellen Zusammen…
Al-Jahiz
Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books. By James E. Montgomery. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature, vol. 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. vi + 586. $160, £95
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.)
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, and other scholarly disciplines reflecting Islamicate pluralism and cosmopolitanism. Gathering material from all parts of the Muslim wo…
Roads to paradise
The use of parental occupation in adolescent health surveys. An application of Isco-based measures of occupational status
BACKGROUND: Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) across regions. This study aims to examine measures of occupational status derived from the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), alongside commonly used affluence measures in association with adolescent se…
Von Rom nach Bagdad
Die Autoren der Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen die Interaktion von Bildung und Religion in den Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums und des Nahen Ostens über mehr als ein Jahrtausend hinweg. Der Bogen spannt sich von den Höhlen in Qumran am Toten Meer über die kulturellen Zentren der griechisch-römischen Antike, das frühe Judentum und Christentum bis zu den literarischen und bildungstheoretischen Diskursen im klassischen Islam. Dabei werden insbesond…
Al-nawfalī's Lost History
The vast number of compilations by Muslim scholars of the ninth to the eleventh centuries is clear evidence of the ‘knowledge society’ that characterised Islamic civilisation in classical times. Then, as today, these often voluminous Arabic compendia intrigued readers with their wealth of information and sophisticated structure, as well as their complex and, at times, ambiguous nature in terms of the age and historicity of the materials they pres…
In our days, religion has once again become something alien
No Abstract
In our days, religion has once again become something alien
No Abstract
O People of the Scripture! Come to a Word Common to You and Us (Q. 3
The Ten Commandments of the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament, are undisputedly of fundamental significance for communities, societies and cultures of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, for many Jews and Christians this Biblical list of religious and ethical precepts is the Magna Carta of social order. It is a privileged record of law that constitutes a Biblical microcosm of God’s covenant with humankind. Naturally, the question arises as to…
Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal
Ideas, images, and methods of portrayal
This volume deals with the genesis of selected classical Arabic texts as the products of different milieus, and the implications which these texts had for Islamic societies in medieval times. It explores the concepts and images which Muslim scholars from the 8th to the 14th century presented in their writings and, in particular, ponders the ways in which these authors used specific methods of portrayal-either overtly or more subtly-to advance the…
Assessing the Sources of Classical Arabic Compilations
The complex nature of medieval Arabic compilations, with their evidence of manifold pieces and layers of diverse (older) text material, has been puzzling to many scholars of Islam. It has even caused some researchers to question the authenticity and credibility of information contained in these texts—and their value as historical sources—altogether. An inquiry into the theoretical controversies at issue here constitutes the starting point of this…
Muḥammad, the Illiterate Prophet
The Qur'an identifies the Prophet Muḥammad as al-nabī al-ummī (Q.7:157–158). Muslim consensus has come to perceive this epithet for the Prophet of Islam as indicating conclusively that he was Muḥammad, ‘the illiterate prophet.’ Medieval and modern scholars, however, have drawn attention to further possible meanings of the Qur'anic term ummī. Based on an inquiry into the concepts of literacy and illiteracy in the Qur'an, this study hopes to provid…
Due Results in the Theory of Source-Criticism in Medieval Arabic Literature
Maqâtil Literature in Medieval Islam
Quellenuntersuchungen zu den "Maqatil at-Talibiyyin" des Abu l-Farag al-Isfahani (gest. 356/967)
Quellenuntersuchungen zu den "Maqātil aṭ-Ṭālibiyyīn" des Abū ʾl-Faraǧ al-Iṣfahānī (gest. 356/967)
The use of parental occupation in adolescent health surveys. An application of Isco-based measures of occupational status
BACKGROUND: Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) across regions. This study aims to examine measures of occupational status derived from the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), alongside commonly used affluence measures in association with adolescent se…
Quellenuntersuchungen zu den "Maqātil aṭ-Ṭālibiyyīn" des Abū ʾl-Faraǧ al-Iṣfahānī (gest. 356/967)
Quellenuntersuchungen zu den "Maqatil at-Talibiyyin" des Abu l-Farag al-Isfahani (gest. 356/967)
Due Results in the Theory of Source-Criticism in Medieval Arabic Literature
Maqâtil Literature in Medieval Islam
Muḥammad, the Illiterate Prophet
The Qur'an identifies the Prophet Muḥammad as al-nabī al-ummī (Q.7:157–158). Muslim consensus has come to perceive this epithet for the Prophet of Islam as indicating conclusively that he was Muḥammad, ‘the illiterate prophet.’ Medieval and modern scholars, however, have drawn attention to further possible meanings of the Qur'anic term ummī. Based on an inquiry into the concepts of literacy and illiteracy in the Qur'an, this study hopes to provid…
Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal
Ideas, images, and methods of portrayal
This volume deals with the genesis of selected classical Arabic texts as the products of different milieus, and the implications which these texts had for Islamic societies in medieval times. It explores the concepts and images which Muslim scholars from the 8th to the 14th century presented in their writings and, in particular, ponders the ways in which these authors used specific methods of portrayal-either overtly or more subtly-to advance the…
Assessing the Sources of Classical Arabic Compilations
The complex nature of medieval Arabic compilations, with their evidence of manifold pieces and layers of diverse (older) text material, has been puzzling to many scholars of Islam. It has even caused some researchers to question the authenticity and credibility of information contained in these texts—and their value as historical sources—altogether. An inquiry into the theoretical controversies at issue here constitutes the starting point of this…
O People of the Scripture! Come to a Word Common to You and Us (Q. 3
The Ten Commandments of the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament, are undisputedly of fundamental significance for communities, societies and cultures of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, for many Jews and Christians this Biblical list of religious and ethical precepts is the Magna Carta of social order. It is a privileged record of law that constitutes a Biblical microcosm of God’s covenant with humankind. Naturally, the question arises as to…
In our days, religion has once again become something alien
No Abstract
In our days, religion has once again become something alien
No Abstract
Al-nawfalī's Lost History
The vast number of compilations by Muslim scholars of the ninth to the eleventh centuries is clear evidence of the ‘knowledge society’ that characterised Islamic civilisation in classical times. Then, as today, these often voluminous Arabic compendia intrigued readers with their wealth of information and sophisticated structure, as well as their complex and, at times, ambiguous nature in terms of the age and historicity of the materials they pres…
Von Rom nach Bagdad
Die Autoren der Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen die Interaktion von Bildung und Religion in den Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums und des Nahen Ostens über mehr als ein Jahrtausend hinweg. Der Bogen spannt sich von den Höhlen in Qumran am Toten Meer über die kulturellen Zentren der griechisch-römischen Antike, das frühe Judentum und Christentum bis zu den literarischen und bildungstheoretischen Diskursen im klassischen Islam. Dabei werden insbesond…
The use of parental occupation in adolescent health surveys. An application of Isco-based measures of occupational status
BACKGROUND: Recent research has emphasised that the challenge in researching socioeconomic differences in adolescent health cross-nationally lies in providing valid and comparable measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) across regions. This study aims to examine measures of occupational status derived from the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), alongside commonly used affluence measures in association with adolescent se…
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.)
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, and other scholarly disciplines reflecting Islamicate pluralism and cosmopolitanism. Gathering material from all parts of the Muslim wo…
Roads to paradise
Das Paradies ist ein Hörsaal für die Seelen«
Religionskulturen der Antike und des Mittelalters sind eng mit dem Bildungsthema verknüpft - in ganz unterschiedlicher Weise. Wie hängen Bildung und Religion zusammen, welche Bildungsgüter und -wege gelten aus religiöser Sicht als erstrebenswert (oder auch als gefährlich), und wer sind die Akteure in diesem Feld? Diesen und verwandten Fragen widmet sich dieser interdisziplinäre Sammelband mit besonderem Augenmerk auf den institutionellen Zusammen…
Al-Jahiz
Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books. By James E. Montgomery. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature, vol. 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Pp. vi + 586. $160, £95
Lesen, Deuten und Verstehen?!
Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht die Konzepte, Methoden und Inhalte der Auslegung autoritativer religiöser Texte in Antike und Mittelalter. Diese Texte sind Ausgangs- und Ansatzpunkte in Unterweisungen, die zur Orientierung und Identitätsbildung dienen, dem Einzelnen ebenso wie Gemeinschaften und Gesellschaften. Fachvertreterinnen und Fachvertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen - aus Geschichte, Philologie, Orientalistik, Religionswissenscha…
Islamic Ethics as Educational Discourse
This edited volume offers expert insights into core questions of ethics, education, and religion during what is often termed the »Golden Age« of Islamic culture and intellectual history. It focuses on the scholarly oeuvre of the Muslim philosopher and historian Miskawayh (d. 1030), who is known in the contemporary Muslim world as the »founder of Islamic ethics«. Written by internationally renowned scholars in Islamic studies, the chapters trace t…
Textual Endings as Persuasive Educational Beginnings
The Brethren of Purity, a circle of high-ranking 9th and 10th-century scholars from the Iraqi port city of Basra, is renowned for having produced an immense literary corpus of encyclopedic erudition: the Rasāʾīl Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ . The wide range of religious and non-religious subjects of these Epistles, the questions as to the identity of their authors and intended addressees, as well as the specifics of the language and literary devices character…
Al-Ghazālī on Logic as a Means of Learning
Renowned for his profound scholarship, the philosophical theologian and mystic Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) has significantly influenced Islamic thought and education for centuries. This article presents a novel approach to studying his body of works. It analyzes six of al-Ghazālī’s key works on logic in chronological order, offering a fresh perspective on his views on reasoning. Additionally, the study explicitly focuses on al-Ghazālī’s co…
Al-Ghazālī on Logic as a Means of Learning
Renowned for his profound scholarship, the philosophical theologian and mystic Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) has significantly influenced Islamic thought and education for centuries. This article presents a novel approach to studying his body of works. It analyzes six of al-Ghazālī’s key works on logic in chronological order, offering a fresh perspective on his views on reasoning. Additionally, the study explicitly focuses on al-Ghazālī’s co…
Philosophy (14 works) · Islamic Studies and History (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Islam (10 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · History (8 works) · Arabic (7 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (7 works)