Abdennour Bidar
Abdennour Bidar | |
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Born | Clermont-Ferrand, France | 13 January 1971
Nationality | French |
Education | École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud |
Occupation | Philosopher Writer |
Abdennour Bidar (born 13 January 1971) is a French writer and philosopher of Islamic culture.[1]
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".[1][2][3]
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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b (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).
- 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: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22117954-12341258
- Mohammed Hashas, "Abdennour Bidar: self Islam, Islamic existentialism, and overcoming religion," in The Idea of European Islam: Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity https://www.routledge.com/The-Idea-of-European-Islam-Religion-Ethics-Politics-and-Perpetual-Modernity/Hashas/p/book/9780367509743 (London and New York: Routledge, 2019)Chapter four, pp. 140-162. ISBN 9781138093843
See also[]
- Islamic Modernism
Categories:
- 1971 births
- Living people
- ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon alumni
- 21st-century French writers
- 21st-century French philosophers
- People from Clermont-Ferrand
- French scholars of Islam
- French people of Moroccan descent
- Radio France people
- French male non-fiction writers