When tradition meets modernity

Prof. Dina El Omari researches into questions relating to gender and Islam. Münster University - Heiner Witte There's something that everybody who has anything to do with the Centre for Islamic Theology (ZIT) notices especially: the numerous interfaces and the amount of dialogue with other disciplines in the field of the Humanities - pedagogics, history, law, philosophy, literary and linguistic studies, Christian and Jewish theologies - to name just a few. The focus of the faith-based subject is an academically substantiated examination of various aspects of the faith. The basis and the guideline for many research projects is the -theology of mercy- described by Prof. Mouhanad Khorchide. This not only, in an initial step, places the Quran in an historical context and looks for traces of mercy in this, but also, in a second step, puts these traces in a modern context. At ZIT, in a Quran project bearing the same name, a team of researchers headed by Mouhanad Khorchide is working on the first historical-theological Quran commentary, taking into account processes of appropriation, transformation and demarcation between Islam and the Judaeo-Christian tradition. The aim is to analyse, and provide a commentary on, a wide range of topics in the Quran in the light of the theology of mercy.