Mouhanad Khorchide was born in 1971 in Beirut, grew up in Saudi Arabia and studied Islamic theology and sociology in Beirut and Vienna. In 2010 he became professor for Islamic Religious Education and since 2011 he is head of the Centre for Islamic Theology in Münster, coordinator of the post graduate program for Islamic Theology of the Mercator foundation as well as principal investigator of the cluster of excellence “Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures”. Recent publications include Gott glaubt an den Menschen. Mit dem Islam zu einem neuen Humanismus (2015), Scharia – der missverstandene Gott: der Weg zu einer modernen islamischen Ethik (2013), Islam ist Barmherzigkeit: Grundzüge einer modernen Religion (2012).