About the Author

Sebastian Günther, Ph.D. (1989) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, is an Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on the literary and intellectual heritage of Islam, including Quellenuntersuchungen zu den Maqātil aṭ-Ṭālibiyyīn (Olms, 1991).