Mouhanad Khorchide (مُهَنَّد خُورْشِيد, * 6 September 1971 in Beirut) is an Austrian sociologist and Islamic theologian. He is Professor of Islamic Religious Education and Director of the Center for Islamic Theology (ZIT) at the University of Münster in Germany.^[1]

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 became an Austrian citizen. Parallel to his studies in Austria, Khorchide studied Islam in Beirut at the university Imam al-Auzāʿī in Beirut. From 2006 to 2010, he worked at the niversity of Vienna in the fields of Islamic studies and Islamic pedagogy. Parallel to this, he was Imam of a mosque near Vienna.^[2]

Since July 20, 2010, Khorchide has succeeded Sven Kalisch as Professor of Islamic Religious Education at the University of Münster, where Islamic religious education teachers have been trained since fall 2010.^[1]

In July 2020, Mouhanad Khorchide presented the Austrian Documentation Center for Political Islam together with Lorenzo Vidino and the responsible Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP). Since then, Khorchide has headed the scientific advisory board of this center.^[3]

The major Muslim associations in Germany reject Khorchide's approach, or at least look at it with much suspicion.^[4]

• Liberal and Progressive Muslim movements
• Islam in Germany

• Islam is Mercy: Essential Features of a Modern Religion 2014. ISBN 978-3-451-80286-7
  • German: Islam ist Barmherzigkeit. Grundzüge einer modernen Religion 2012.
• Scharia – der missverstandene Gott: Der Weg zu einer modernen islamischen Ethik 2013.
• Gott glaubt an den Menschen: Mit dem Islam zu einem neuen Humanismus 2015.

As editor:

• with Klaus von Stosch: Herausforderungen an die islamische Theologie in Europa. Challenges for Islamic theology in Europe 2012.
• with Marco Schöller: Das Verhältnis zwischen Islamwissenschaft und islamischer Theologie. Beiträge der Konferenz Münster, 1.-2. Juli 2011 2012.

• Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide at the Centre for Islamic Theology (CIT) at the University of Münster.
• Mouhanad Khorchide's Reformist Theology: De-politicizing the Koran in Qantara.de 2013.
• "God is not a Dictator" Interview in Qantara 2012.
• Dispute about Prof Mouhanad Khorchide: A conflict of many layers in Qantara 2014.
• Teaching Islam’s ‘Forgotten’ Side as Germany Changes in New York Times January 9, 2015.