Bijan Abdolkarimi (born 1963 in Tehran) (Persian: بیژن عبدالکریمی ) is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor. He is associate professor of philosophy at Islamic Azad University (North-Tehran branch). His main interests are Heidegger's philosophy, postmodernism, political philosophy and existentialism. He claims to challenge the dominant ideological discourse in Iran.
He has participated in debates at Iranian universities and also in IRIB TV4 in which he has opposed the notion of Islamic humanities.
He is also a scholar of Heidegger's thought and philosophy. Abdolkarimi received his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University in 2002 under the supervision of Syed Abdul Sayeed.