Adel Theodor Khoury

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Adel Theodor Khoury ( Arabic عادل خوري; * March 26, 1930 in Tebnine , Lebanon ) is a Melkite Greek Catholic priest , theologian , Islamic scholar , Koran translator and university professor .

Life

Khoury studied philosophy and theology as well as oriental studies at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut and philosophy in Lyon with the priestly community of the Melkite Paulists in Lebanon . In Lyon he completed his habilitation in 1966 with Roger Arnaldez with a thesis (Docteur d'Etat) on the Byzantine emperor Manuel II. Palaiologos . This publication received attention beyond science mainly because Pope Benedict XVI. quoted from her in a speech in Regensburg in 2006 , which led to a worldwide, mainly Catholic-Islamic, debate.

After completing his habilitation, Khoury received an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship at the University of Münster . From 1970 until his retirement in 1993 he was professor and head of the seminar for general religious studies of the Catholic- Theological Faculty . Khoury is the founder and head of the research center for Christian-Islamic dialogue in Harissa (Lebanon) .

Adel Theodor Khoury is an honorary archimandrite and a brother of the Lebanese religious philosopher Paul Khoury .

Christianity and Islam

As a theologian, Adel Theodor Khoury particularly demands understanding between Christianity and Islam . He wrote considerable studies on Islam and the characteristics of that religion. One of the most important German translations of the Koran comes from him. The translator placed particular emphasis on following the usual interpretation of the Islamic "mainstream" in cases of doubt. As a result, the reader does not find the Koran to be understood by a religious minority in this text , but by the vast majority of Muslims. Iran named its translation of the Koran in 2009 as “Book of the Year” in the “Islamic Studies” category.

Works

  • 1966 Manuel II Paléologue. Entretiens avec un Musulman, Introduction, texte critique, traduction et notes , Editions du Cerf, Paris
  • 1978 Introduction to the Basics of Islam , Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne, ISBN 3-222-11126-X
  • 1980 Tolerance in Islam , Grünewald, Munich / Mainz, ISBN 3-459-01250-1 / 9783459012503 / 3-459-01250-1
  • 1988 So spoke the Prophet, GTB Siebenstern 785, ISBN 3-579-00785-8
  • 1988 Islam: its faith, its way of life, its claim , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna, ISBN 3-451-04167-7
  • 1991 Ed .: Lexikon des Islam: Geschichte, Ideen, Gestalten , 3 vols., ISBN 3-451-04036-0 , revised new edition. 1999, ISBN 3-451-04753-5 , CD-ROM 2004, ISBN 3-89853-447-2
  • 1991 What does the Koran say about the Holy War , Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, ISBN 3-579-00789-0 , 2nd revised and expanded edition 2007, ISBN 3-579-06485-1
  • 1993 Ed .: The Ethos of World Religions , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna, ISBN 3-451-04166-9
  • 1994 Christians under the Crescent: Religious minorities under the rule of Islam , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna, ISBN 3-451-22851-3
  • 1995–2001 Ed .: Small Library of Religions , 10 vols., Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna
  • 1997, together with Ludwig Hagemann : Are Muslims allowed to live permanently in a non-Islamic country? On a dimension of the integration of Muslim fellow citizens into a non-Islamic social order ; Würzburg: Echter Verlag, ISBN 3-429-01901-X ; Oros Verlag, Altenberge, ISBN 3-89375-144-0
  • 2000, together with Peter Heine and Janbernd Oebbecke : Handbook Law and Culture of Islam in German Society: Problems in Everyday Life - Backgrounds - Answers , Gütersloher Verlag-Haus, Gütersloh, ISBN 3-579-02663-1
  • 2001 Islam and the Western World: Basic Religious and Political Questions , WBG or Primus, Darmstadt, ISBN 3-89678-437-4
  • 2001 Introduction in: Günter Kettermann: Atlas for the History of Islam , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt
  • 2002 Living in Peace with Muslims: Peace Potentials of Islam , Echter, Würzburg, ISBN 3-429-02455-2
  • 2003 Ed .: War and violence in the world religions: facts and backgrounds , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna, ISBN 3-451-28245-3
  • 2004 Translation and commentary: The Koran: Arabic-German , Kaiser / Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, Gütersloh, ISBN 3-579-05408-2
  • 2005 The Koran: developed and commented on by Adel Theodor Khoury , Patmos, Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-491-72485-6 ( review by H-Soz-u-Kult )
  • 2005 Ed .: The world religions and ethics , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna, ISBN 3-451-05648-8
  • 2005 Sufanieh: A Message for Christians in the World , Oros, Altenberge, ISBN 3-89375-212-9
  • 2008ff. The hadith. Certificate of Islamic Tradition. Selected and over. by Adel Theador Khoury. Gütersloh, ISBN 3-579-08066-0 / 978-3-579-08066-6

literature

  • Ludwig Hagemann, Ernst Pulsfort (ed.): "But you are all brothers". Festschrift for A. Th. Khoury on his 60th birthday . Echter, Würzburg 1990, ISBN 3-429-01303-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Paulists ( Memento of July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Address of Pope Benedict XVI. in the Aula Magna of the University of Regensburg - Tuesday, September 12, 2006
  3. Iran honors the German Koran. In NWZ Online . February 25, 2009.