Abdennour Bidar

{{short description|French writer and philosopher}}

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| name = Abdennour Bidar

| image = Abdennour Bidar par Claude Truong-Ngoc janvier 2014.jpg

| caption = Abdennour Bidar in 2014

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|01|13|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Clermont-Ferrand, France

| nationality = French

| education = École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud

| occupation = Philosopher
Writer

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Abdennour Bidar (born 13 January 1971) is a French writer and philosopher of Islamic culture.{{in lang|fr}} 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.

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".Abdennour Bidar, [https://www.resetdoc.org/story/00000022484 "Open Letter to the Muslim World"] (page visited on 30 January 2015).{{in lang|fr}} Abdennour Bidar, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150112012414/http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/abdennour-bidar/lettre-ouverte-au-monde-m_1_b_6443610.html "Lettre ouverte au monde musulman"]}}, Huffington Post (page visited on 30 January 2015).

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.