Mouhanad Khorchide

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Mouhanad Khorchide (2014)
Khorchide (2nd from left) at the panel at the Theological Forum Christianity Islam, 2010

Mouhanad Khorchide ( Arabic مُهَنَّد خُورْشِيد Muhannad Churschid , DMG Muhannad Ḫūršīd , born September 6, 1971 in Beirut ) is an Austrian sociologist , Islamic scholar and religious educator . He is Professor of Islamic Religious Education at the Center for Religious Studies (CRS) and Head of the Center for Islamic Theology (ZIT) at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

Life

Khorchide's grandparents had fled Palestine to Lebanon , and from there his parents moved on to Saudi Arabia , where Mouhanad Khorchide went to school. As a foreigner, he and his siblings were not allowed to study there and learned German so that they could study in Germany later. But as stateless people , they did not receive a visa and then opted for Austria.

Mouhanad Khorchide came to Vienna in 1989 at the age of 18 , studied sociology and became an Austrian citizen after four years . In addition to his undergraduate studies, he began distance learning. He flew regularly for a few weeks to Beirut for a few years, where he graduated from Imam al-Auzāʿī University in Islamic theology.

From December 2006 to September 2008 he was a university assistant at the research unit Islamic Religious Education at the University of Vienna . Since 2007 he has been a lecturer for the private course for teaching Islamic religion in compulsory schools. At the same time, he was a researcher on various projects in Germany and abroad. His teaching and research focus are Islam in Europe , Islamic religious instruction in Europe, Muslims of the second generation of immigrants , Koranic hermeneutics as well as Islam and the Enlightenment . Khorchide also taught in adult education institutions. Khorchide was the imam of a small mosque in Vienna- Ottakring and has worked as a religion teacher himself.

For his dissertation Islamic Religious Education between Integration and Parallel Society: Attitudes of Islamic Religious Teachers in Public Schools from 2008, Khorchide interviewed around half of the 400 Islamic religious teachers in Austria. A significant minority of those questioned rejected democratic principles and the rule of law. As a reaction in politics there were demands in all parties for stricter rules. The Islamic Faith Community resisted and spoke of "defamation".

Since July 20, 2010, Khorchide has been Sven Kalisch's successor as professor for Islamic Religious Education, with which the University of Münster has been training Islamic religion teachers since autumn 2010.

Khorchide is the editor of a historical-critical commentary on the Koran , which has been published by Herder-Verlag since autumn 2018 and is spread over a total of 17 volumes .

Positions and controversies

In his book "Islam ist Barmherzigkeit", published in 2012, Khorchide presented his vision of a modern, enlightened Islam: a humanistic religion that is primarily characterized by the mercy of God, love of God and freedom. Khorchide reads the Koran as a book from the seventh century, the individual commandments of which can no longer literally be translated into today's life. He advocates a historical-critical exegesis of the Koran . Nevertheless, with such an interpretation, the core messages of the Prophet Mohammed would be preserved.

At the end of 2013, Muslim associations (including the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany , the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion and the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany ) protested against Khorchide, whose historical-critical method and theses on mercy they reject. In their opinion, Khorchide's theological positions did not meet scientific standards, nor did they conform to his commitment to a confessional theology of Islam. This has damaged the organized Muslims' trust in his work.

Because Khorchide received death threats, he was under police protection.

Association activities

Khorchide is a founding member of the Muslim Forum Germany, which was founded in 2015 .

Awards and honors

Works

As an author:

  • Islamic religious instruction between integration and parallel society. Attitudes of Islamic religion teachers in public schools. VS , Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16493-9 (dissertation, University of Vienna, 2008).
  • Islam is mercy. Basic features of a modern religion. Herder , Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30572-6 .
  • Sharia - the misunderstood God. The way to a modern Islamic ethic. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30911-3 .
  • God believes in people: with Islam to a new humanism. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2015
  • with Hamed Abdel-Samad : Freedom includes criticizing the Koran. Herder, 2016, ISBN 978-3-451-27146-5 .
  • with Hamed Abdel-Samad: Can Islam still be saved ?: A polemic in 95 theses. Droemer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-27734-8 .
  • God's false lawyers. The betrayal of Islam , Herder Verlag, 2020

As editor:

  • Together on the way. Islamic religion class. Klett, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-12-006030-7 .
  • with Klaus von Stosch : Challenges to Islamic theology in Europe. Challenges for Islamic theology in Europe. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30712-6 .
  • with Marco Schöller: The relationship between Islamic studies and Islamic theology. Contributions from the Münster Conference, 1. – 2. July 2011. Agenda, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89688-484-8 .
  • with Milad Karimi , Klaus von Stosch: Theology of Mercy? Contemporary questions and answers from the Kalām (= series of publications on the Graduate College of Islamic Theology. Vol. 1). Waxmann, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-8309-2981-9
  • with Milad Karimi : Yearbook for Islamic Theology and Religious Education. Kalam Verlag , Freiburg (since 2012). ISBN 978-3-9815572-0-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Center for Islamic Theology: Persons main page. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ A man on a delicate mission. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 31, 2010, accessed May 25, 2012 .
  3. ^ Career of an outcast. In: The time . March 13, 2012, Retrieved May 25, 2012 .
  4. ^ Jocelyne Cesari: The Oxford Handbook of European Islam (Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology). 2014, p. 139 ( partial online view )
  5. ↑ a b Tricky job for a Professor in: Time . May 20, 2010, accessed September 23, 2013 .
  6. ^ The Islamic religious education between integration and parallel society: attitudes of the Islamic religious teachers in public schools. In: Austrian National Library . Retrieved September 23, 2013 .
  7. ^ The teachers of Islam. A new study reveals the authoritarian and undemocratic worldview of Muslim religion teachers. In: Falter.at. January 27, 2009, accessed September 23, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Government has the allegations against Islam teachers checked again. In: Nachrichten.at. January 31, 2009, accessed September 23, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Khorchide will in future train religious teachers in Münster. In: The world . July 20, 2010, accessed September 23, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Herder publishes historical-critical Koran commentary , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, October 12, 2018, accessed on October 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ Johanna Grillmayer: The gentle face of Islam. In: ORF . Retrieved September 23, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Oliver Trenkamp: Dispute over Islamic scholars: Muslim associations attack theologians Khorchide. In: Spiegel Online . 18th December 2013.
  13. ↑ Coordinating Council of Muslims: Opinion with a report by the KRM on Mouhanad Khorchide, the holder of the Islamic chair in Münster. ( Memento of May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press release. 17th December 2013.
  14. ^ "Islamic Theology at German Universities", in the Advisory Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration: Many Gods, One State: Religious Diversity and Participation in the Immigration Country. Annual report 2016 , pp. 116–118 (PDF, 5.3 MB).
  15. ↑ Cf. Burkhard Schäfers: “Theologie gegen den Terror” , ZEIT-Online, 3 Dec. 2015
  16. ↑ Press release Konrad Adenauer Foundation “Muslim Forum Germany” on the initiative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation founded on April 22, 2015
  17. ↑ Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics News from November 18, 2018: “An independent voice”. Tolerance ring for Islamic theologians Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide , accessed December 22, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Khorchide, Mouhanad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sociologist, Islamic scholar and religious educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut