Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning Between Continuity and Change

Product Description
Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change offers fascinating new insights into key issues of learning and human development in classical Islam, including their shared characteristics, influence, and interdependence with historical, non-Muslim educational cultures.
About the Author
Sebastian Günther is Professor and Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen. A specialist in Islamic thought, his publications include, with Todd Lawson,
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (Brill 2016) and with Dorothee Lauer,
Die Geheimnisse der oberen und der unteren Welt: Magie im Islam zwischen Glaube und Wissenschaft (Brill 2018).