Islamic scholars at the University of Münster receive awards

"Toleranzring" for Prof. Mouhanad Khorchide With the "Toleranzring", the European Academy of Sciences and Arts honours personalities who are committed to cross-border dialogue and against racism. Mouhanad Khorchide has been teaching and researching as a professor of Islamic religious education at the University of Münster since 2010 - he also heads the "Centre for Islamic Thoelogy" at the University of Münster. "Mouhanad Khorchides' special concern is to raise an independent voice in religious dialogue and in the everyday life of religious policy. He wants to contribute to a non-violent understanding of his religion in the political environment - a religion that he understands as one of peaceful coexistence while respecting the views and rights of the individual and the religious freedom of those who think differently," said Prof. Stefan Zimmermann, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, in his laudation. The other laureates of this year's Tolerance Rings are the cultural scientists Jan Assmann and Aleida Assmann as well as the journalist Richard Chaim Schneider. In addition, the University of Cologne and the Academy awarded the Prize for Tolerance to three Cologne schools. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts has been awarding the Tolerance Rings annually since 1997. In the past they went to Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and the conductor Daniel Barenboim. "Deutscher Dialogpreis" for Prof. Ahmad Milad Karimi