| Abdennour Bidar | |
|---|---|
 Abdennour Bidar in 2014 | |
| Born | (1971-01-13) 13 January 1971 (age 53) Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud |
| Occupation(s) | Philosopher Writer |
Abdennour Bidar (born 13 January 1971) is a French writer and philosopher of Islamic culture.
Author of several books and many articles, he came to public attention in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, when he wrote an "Open Letter to the Muslim World".
He works for the French Ministry of National Education. In 2015, due to the death of Abdelwahab Meddeb, he is named responsible of the programme "Cultures d'islam" (English: "Cultures of Islam") on the public radio France Culture.
Notes and references
- ^ (in French) Céline Zünd, Emmanuel Gehrig et Olivier Perrin, "Dans le Coran, sur 6300 versets, cinq contiennent un appel à tuer", Le Temps, Thursday 29 January 2015, pages 10–11.
- Abdennour Bidar, "Open Letter to the Muslim World" (page visited on 30 January 2015).
- (in French) Abdennour Bidar, "Lettre ouverte au monde musulman", Huffington Post (page visited on 30 January 2015).
Bibliography
- Mohammed Hashas, "Reading Abdennour Bidar: New Pathways for European Islamic Thought," Journal of Muslims in Europe, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2013, pages 45 – 76, at: books and Journal Brill online
- Mohammed Hashas, "Abdennour Bidar: self Islam, Islamic existentialism, and overcoming religion," in The Idea of European Islam: Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity at Routlegde.com (London and New York: Routledge, 2019)Chapter four, pp. 140-162. ISBN 9781138093843
- Kiwan, Nadia (May 2020). Abdennour Bidar: existentialist Islam as intercultural translation, in - Secularism, Islam and Public Intellectuals in Contemporary France. Manchester Scholarship Online. ISBN 9781784994129.
