Mouhanad Khorchide
Khorchide grew up in Saudi Arabia, where his Palestinian family had taken refuge. At the age of 18, he emigrated to Vienna, Austria. There he studied sociology and soon became an Austrian citizen. Parallel to his studies in Austria, Khorchide studied Islam in Beirut.
From 2006 to 2010, he worked at the University of Vienna in the fields of Islamic studies and Islamic pedagogy. At the same time, he was Imam of a mosque near Vienna.
In 2010, Khorchide became professor for Islamic Religious Education at the University of Münster in Germany and head of the Centre for Islamic Theology (CIT).
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Without Judaism, No Islam. The Denied Source
- Mouhanad Khorchide
Published under the original title Ohne Judentum kein Islam. Die verleugnete Quelle, with the subtitle Die Wurzeln des muslimischen Antisemitismus. Eine aktuelle Analyse (“The Roots of Muslim...
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Scientific Evaluation of Islamic Religious Education in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Mouhanad Khorchide
Conducted by the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster (directed by Mouhanad Khorchide) at the request of the Ministry of Education of North Rhine-Westphalia, this final scientif...
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The Nicene Creed and Islam: Debates on the Nizänum in the Qur’anic Surahs
- Mouhanad Khorchide
Published in 2025 by Herder (192 pp.), Nizänum und Islam. Debatten des Nizänums in koranischen Suren, edited by Angelika Neuwirth, Dirk Hartwig and Mouhanad Khorchide (a researcher in the Pluriel n...
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Islamic environmental theology
- Mouhanad Khorchide
A dedicated Islamic environmental theology is still a recent academic phenomenon. How can a contemporary environmental ethic be defined, which environmental theological approaches can be conceived?...
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The other prophet: Jesus in the Quran
- Klaus von Stosch
- Mouhanad Khorchide
Jesus is considered in Islam as one of the most important prophets, and in the Koran as a divine sign. Yet his place in Islam is not the same as in Christianity. In their unique book, Mouhanad Khor...
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Islam is charity: the foundations of a modern religion
- Mouhanad Khorchide
For the first time in the German-speaking world: a contemporary Islamic theology. Mouhanad Khorchide shows how Islam can come from within itself to a self-understanding that makes a fundamental tur...
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Sharia – the misunderstood God: the way to a modern Islamic ethic
- Mouhanad Khorchide
Presentation of the publisher Few terms refer to Islam as “sharia”. Mouhanad Khorchide, exploring new foundations of an Islamic theology (“Islam is mercy”) and in a renewed ...
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God believes in man: with Islam, towards a new humanism
- Mouhanad Khorchide
The message of Mouhanad Khorchide is clear: we need a global humanism that pays tribute to the people as a global family. By recognizing its own potential, Islam can make a decisive contribution. M...
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Islamic Visions of Jesus: Revelation, Prophecy, and Eschatology
- Antonio Cuciniello
Abstract Published in the collective volume Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem, edited by Emma O'Donnell Polyakov (Blo...
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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "Cuestiones sobre la soteriología islámica en el islam primitivo" in the collective volume Riesgos y fidelidades. Miradas teológicas para un mundo plu...
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The Virtues of the Good Muslim
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Published in 2025 by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari in Venice, this monograph by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca’ Foscari University) is the augmented English translation of Le virtù del buon Musulmano, fir...
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ʿAbd al-Mutaʿāl al-Ṣaʿīdī (1894-1971): A Defence of Religious Freedom
- Youssouf Sangare
Published in 2024 in the collective volume Théologies musulmanes du pluralisme religieux (ed. Emmanuel Pisani, Éditions du Cerf, proceedings of the ISTR symposium of 20-21 November 2021, pp. 65-88)...
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“War and peace”, by Adrien Candiard
On Wednesday 20 May 2026, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) hosted in Cairo a lecture by Brother Adrien Candiard, Dominican and Islamologist, on the theme "War and peace". Faced w...
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Defining the beautiful in Islam: between submission to and transgression of ethical norms
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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The contemplation of God’s signs according to Ibn Barrajān of Seville: towards an ethics respectful of the natural world
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Annihilation in beauty, subsistence in ethics: the unity of unveiling and ethics in Ibn ʿArabī
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...