Theodore Khoury

Professor Adel Theodor Khoury (Arabic: عادل خوري) (born March 26, 1930 in Tebnine, Lebanon) is a Catholic theologian.

Until his retirement in 1993 Khoury was head of the theology department of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Khoury is notable for his efforts toward interfaith dialogue between Christianity and Islam. He completed one of the most notable, non-sectarian translations of the Qur'an into the German language.

In 2004, he witnessed a miracle in Soufanieh, where Myrna Nazzour had stigmata. [1]

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Prof. Khoury has also translated several dialogues between Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and an ""educated Persian" (presumably one who spoke Greek) in 1966. Pope Benedict XVI lectured on one of these dialogues recently at his former university of Regensburg, stirring up a fierce international controversity. (See Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy.)

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