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).[1] In December 2004 he was touring with Husain Haqqani, a neocon-connected Pakistani, in support of a think tank by the name of Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace(IIPP).[2] 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[3][4][5], Schwartz is a frequent contributor to the National Review, the Weekly Standard, FrontPage, and other conservative publications."[6]

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 [7].
• Family Security Matters, contributing editor [8]
• 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.