ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a novel reading of Islam in the age of modernity, which in turn contributes an innovative philosophic-theologic approach of the idea of European Islam, as it is promoted by the French Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar (b. 1971). This chapter argues that Bidar’s work could be considered a genuine attempt that outlines a theoretical framework for European Islamic thought that is neither Eurocentric nor Islamocentric in any narrow classical and antagonistic sense of the terms. Through his theosophic approach, he tries to put the two worldviews together in a genuine effort of a theologian-philosopher.
