As of 2016, Hindi and Urdu editions are forthcoming. The Two Faces of Islam has been translated into Bosnian ( Dva Lica Islama), Albanian ( Dy Ftyrat e Islamit), Farsi ( Du Chehrhe Az-Islam), and Indonesian ( Dua Wajah Islam). He is a Shillman-Ginsburg Writing Fellow of the Middle East Forum. by Routledge Macmillan and in Britain by The Bosnian Institute and Saqi Books.

He is also author of Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook, published in the U.S. In 2002, he published the bestselling The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role In Terrorism (Doubleday). Stephen Suleyman Schwartz is the Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington, DC and author of the 2008 book The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony (Doubleday). Stephen SchwartzĬIP Executive Director Stephen Schwartz Recites Fatiha at the Temporary Grave of Bosnian President Alija Izetbegović, Sarajevo, 2004. in Turkish Studies from the Department of Central Eurasian Studies in 1990 and a Ph.D. Arriving in New York in May 1988, he completed English language training and then began his graduate education at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he received a M.A. from the Department of Turkology at Ankara University in 1988, he was awarded a governmental scholarship to study abroad. He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1964 to a middle-class family, educated in public schools from the elementary to the university level. Professor Silay is current President of CIP. Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Culture at Indiana University (affiliation for identification only) For further information, please contact us. It is qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers, and gifts under sections 2055, 2106, or 2622 of the code. Contributions are deductible under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Center for Islamic Pluralism is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt public charity. San Francisco, CA 94133 USA Contributions and Membership Please direct inquiries to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz. Outreach to the international Muslim community. Publications, including papers, newsletters, books, videos, and, eventually, a regular journal Media activity in print, websites, radio and television Ĭonferences bringing together outstanding representatives of moderate Islam from throughout the Western world Specifically, our mission is to:įoster, develop, defend, protect, and further mobilize moderate American Muslims in their progress toward integration as an equal and respected religious community in the American interfaith environment ĭefine the future of Islam in America as a community opposed to the politicization of our religion, its radicalization, and its marginalization, which has taken place because of the imposition on Muslims of attitudes opposed to American values, traditions, and policies Įducate the broader American public about the reality of moderate Islam and the threat to moderate Muslims and non-Muslim Americans represented by militant, political, radical, and adversarial tendencies. Will graduates, non-graduates and the nation as a whole benefit from the further expansion of higher education?” Professor Schwartz wrote.Founded in Washington, DC in 2004, the Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) is a think tank that challenges the dominance of American Muslim life by militant Islamist groups. “They continuously lobby for more students, more grants, and other forms of preferential treatment. Despite revenue in the billions – in 2021, Sydney University had revenue of $3.5 billion and Melbourne University $3.1 billion, even with the lingering effects of COVID-19 – “they are still not big enough or rich enough”. In the meantime, Professor Schwartz argued, universities were driven by greed. “Arguably, we are a less innovative society today than we were for much of the 20th century.”Įmeritus Professor Steven Schwartz. Yet productivity is at a 50-year low,” Mr Brennan said at the time. “Never in human history has there been so many people with such high levels of educational qualifications and so many people employed in research. That point was made last year by Michael Brennan, head of the Productivity Commission.

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