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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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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“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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Ethics and aesthetics in the thought of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023)
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...
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Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: from bodily healing to the aesthetics of the soul — a study of the “Risālat Dhamm Ladhdhāt al-Dunyā”
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...
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Spiritual poetry, hermeneutics and theology in contemporary Shi’i Iran: Soroush, Shabestari, Malekian and Rūmī
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...
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The Role of Islam and its Organizations in Cooperating on the Goals of the Agenda 2030
- Antonio Angelucci
A chapter by Antonio Angelucci in Human Rights, Religions and the United Nations Agenda 2030 (A. Angelucci, R. Bottoni, G. Camilleri, A. Cupri eds., Ledizioni, 2025).The author presents Islamic eco...