Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz is a close associate of Daniel Pipes with whom he founded the think tank, Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP).

In December 2004 he was touring the US with Husain Haqqani, a neoconservative-connected Pakistani, in support of a think tank by the name of Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace (IIPP). It is not clear, however, whether CIP and IIPP, both set up by Daniel Pipes, are one and the same.

A brief biographical note on the FrontPage website describes him as "a vociferous critic of Wahhabism[1][2][3], Schwartz is a frequent contributor to the National Review, the Weekly Standard, FrontPage, and other conservative publications."[4]

On 6 June 2003, Schwartz participated in a programme at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies on "Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe?".

Affiliations

• Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace, Executive Director
• Center for Islamic Pluralism, Executive Director
• Jamestown Foundation, Terrorologist [5].
• Family Security Matters, contributing editor [6]
• Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Senior Policy Analyst
• MEMRI, Schwartz uses their material.
• Tech Central Station, contributor

Published Works

• Stephen Schwartz, The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror, Doubleday, October 2002. ISBN 0385506929

External Links

• "Stephen Schwartz", Center for Islamic Pluralism, accessed May 2005.
• Search results for Schwartz at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
• Schwartz's biography on the website of the Jamestown Foundation.

Articles

• "From Munis to Meese: Left Communism or State Department Surrealism" 1993 article by Kevin Keating (aka "Keith Sorel").
• "Neo-conservatism and Stephen Schwartz: the further adventures of an obituary writer" 2003 article also by Kevin Keating.
• Schwartz's FrontPage Magazine articles.
• Kathryn Jean Lopez, "The Good & the Bad: Stephen Schwartz on Islam and Wahhabism", National Review Online, November 18, 2002.
• Michael Doran, "Fighting Faith: 'The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud From Tradition to Terror' by Stephen Schwartz", Washington Post, December 22, 2002.
• Clifford Geertz, "Which Way to Mecca? Part II", New York Review of Books, Volume 50, Number 11, July 3, 2003.