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Title Publication Date
Muslim Women I Love Most CIP February 2, 2012
Turkey Leaps Toward Islamist Dictatorship Folksmagazine [India] January 15, 2012
Egyptian Islamists Demand "Morals Patrols" Stonegate Institute [New York] January 12, 2012
Kazakhstan: Global Tumult Enters Critical Central Asia Folksmagazine [India] December 26, 2011
India: Rajasthan Authorities Favor Barelvis, Rejecting Wahhabi Infiltrators Folksmagazine [India] December 20, 2011
Ashura – The Continuing Martyrdom Folksmagazine [India] December 12, 2011
The "Arab Spring" and Turkish Neo-Islamists Folksmagazine [India] December 5, 2011
Zakir Naik: A danger to India and its Muslims Lapido Media [London] December 1, 2011
Mourning a Beloved Iranian Sufi Singer, 10 Years Later The Huffington Post November 30, 2011
Hajj: What It Has Become and What It Should Be Again The Huffington Post November 9, 2011
Iranian Regime's Trail of Terror Folksmagazine [India] October 16, 2011
Islamic shrine desecrations raise fears of religious tensions in post-Gadhafi Libya USA Today October 13, 2011
Erdoğan's Meddling in the Balkans The Weekly Standard Blog October 11, 2011
Karzai's Choice Folksmagazine [India] October 9, 2011
Islamic Sufism and Jewish Kabbalah The Huffington Post October 5, 2011
Indonesian Government's Backward Step on Female Genital Mutilation Hudson Institute New York September 26, 2011
Iranian Sufis Under New Attack The Huffington Post September 17, 2011
Syrian Sunni Cleric Who Signed Protest Statement Dies Mysteriously Hudson Institute New York September 12, 2011
Commemorating the victims of September 11 Uyghur Human Rights Project September 9, 2011
Demolition of Sufi Shrines by Wahhabis in Egypt -- Urdu .pdf 2 Kanzul Iman [India September 8, 2011
Demolition of Sufi Shrines by Wahhabis in Egypt -- Urdu .pdf 1 Kanzul Iman [India] September 8, 2011
Demolition of Sufi Shrines by Wahhabis in Egypt -- Urdu Language Texts Kanzul Iman [India] September 8, 2011
Sufi Mosque Attacked by Assad's Thugs in Damascus; 2 Dead The Weekly Standard Blog August 30, 2011
Is the Taking of Tripoli the Turning Point? Folksmagazine [India[ August 28, 2011
'Sufi Approach to Healing 9/11' to cap FIU's week of remembrance FIU News August 25, 2011
The Sufi Foundation of Libya's Revolution The Huffington Post August 23, 2011
More Islamist Mischief Aimed at Albanian Muslims The Weekly Standard Blog August 17, 2011
Interview with Kamran Pasha Islam Sight [Malappuram, Kerala, India] August 15, 2011
How Many Sufis Are There in Islam? The Huffington Post July 20, 2011
Memorial Thoughts on Srebrenica And Other Yugoslav War Atrocities Illyria [New York] July 15, 2011
Al-Azhar University's 'democracy' call leaves room for Islamism Lapido Media [London] June 29, 2011
Iraqi Kurdistan Passes Law Against FGM Hudson Institute New York June 27, 2011
East Africa cries for the passing away of one of its great men of Allah CIP June 16, 2011
The Academic Boycott vs. the Truth of Islamic Education in Israel The Weekly Standard Blog June 14, 2011
Notes on Sufism as a Social Movement Illyria [New York] May 31-June 13, 2011
The Front Line Against Wahhabism in the Muslim Balkans NewsGram [India] June 6, 2011
Of Butchers and Boycotts The Huffington Post/NewsGram [India] May 28, 2011
Bin Laden and Pakistan The Huffington Post/NewsGram [India] May 10, 2011
Syrian Crisis Grows, and Iran's Inner Circle Gets Edgier The Weekly Standard Blog May 3, 2011
Turkish Turmoil The Weekly Standard Blog April 12, 2011
Egyptian Muslim Fundamentalists Attack Sufis Guardian Online [London] April 11, 2011
The Widening War Against Sufism NewsGram [India] April 9, 2011
Kryegjysh Boterorë Haxhi Dede Reshat Bardhi, 1935-2011 [as .pdf with photograph] Illyria [New York] April 5, 2011
Kryegjysh Boterorë Haxhi Dede Reshat Bardhi, 1935-2011 Illyria [New York] April 5, 2011
Sufis, Islam, and Democracy NewsGram [India] April 1, 2011
The Last Jewish Sufi Mjesto i Uloga Derviških Redova u Bosni i Hercegovini, Zbornik radova povodom obilježavanja 800 godina od rođenja Džemaluddina Rumija – Oriental Institute of Sarajevo and The Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, 2011 2011 Collection of Papers
The Libyan Standard of Resistance The Weekly Standard Blog March 30, 2011
Greetings on Sulltan Nevruz [.pdf] Illyria [New York] March 25, 2011
Meditations on Sultan Nevruz Illyria [New York] March 25, 2011
Urbanised Islam behind Pakistan's Sufi shrine bombings Lapido Media [London] March 15, 2011
Saudi Arabia and the Spectre of Protest Lapido Media [London] March 3, 2011
Iran's Conspiracy Industry The Weekly Standard Blog February 11, 2011
A book that is a credit to the Albanian people Illyria [New York] February 4, 2011
A Muslim woman who sacrificed herself, also, for the Jewish cause NewsGram [India] January 21, 2011
Fatiha for Rahmetli Hafiz Halid Hadžimulić CIP January 10, 2011
Iran Escalates Repression Against Sufis The Weekly Standard Blog January 5, 2011
From Sweden to Macedonia The Weekly Standard Blog December 14, 2010
Another Sufi Master from the House of Ba'Alawi Leaves Us CIP November 14, 2010
Makkah Bids Farewell to One of Its Sons CIP November 10, 2010
Attacks on Sufis Continue in Pakistan The Weekly Standard Blog November 8, 2010
The Heritage of Ottoman Islam in the Balkans Illyria [New York] November 2010
Britain and Pakistan: The Rich Taliban Vs. the Poor Muslim Hudson Institute New York October 15, 2010
Feisal Abdul Rauf's Repellent Record as a Property Developer Hudson Institute New York September 17, 2010
Ground Zero Mosque: A Split at the Top? The Weekly Standard Blog September 1, 2010
A Bosnian Commentator on the Fusus al-Hikam [.pdf] Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society 2010 Annual
A Bosnian Commentator on the Fusus al-Hikam Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society 2010 Annual
Jihadists v. Sufis The Weekly Standard Blog August 9, 2010
"I fervently hope that moderate Islam will defeat radical Islam": Folksmagazine [India] July 5, 2010
Morocco prospers under monarchy Toronto Sun June 19, 2010
An enchanted evening in historic Fes Toronto Sun June 12, 2010
A mosque at Ground Zero? The Boston Globe June 6, 2010
Another Saint of the Ba'Alawi family, the Jewel of Malaysia, leaves us CIP May 15, 2010
On Baba Rexheb's "Mysticism of Islam and Bektashism" Illyria [New York] May 13, 2010
The End of a Legacy: Al-Habib 'Abd al-Qadir al-Saqqaf CIP May 1, 2010
Why Canadian Muslims are different National Post [Toronto] April 6, 2010
Iran: "Thugs in Clerical Dress" vs. The Sufis Hudson Institute New York March 15, 2010
On the 800th Birthday of Haxhi Bektash Veli Illyria [New York] March 2, 2010
A Dervish's Dream for Iran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 22, 2010
The Enigmatic Death of an Iranian Émigré The Weekly Standard Blog January 21, 2010
A makeover for Mecca Public Radio International September 16, 2009
What Happened At Medjugorje? First Things Online September 8, 2009
Islam of the heart against terrorism Kristeligt Dagblad [Copenhagen] July 11, 2009
Mystical Diplomacy Times of India [Mumbai] April 18, 2009
"We Must Recognize in Baba Rexheb the Founder of Authentic Sufism in the U.S." Illyria [New York] March 27, 2009
Ashura in America The Daily Standard January 18, 2009
Excerpts from Interview with Prof. Dr. Rešid Hafizović Oslobođenje [Sarajevo] November 22, 2008
Paying Attention to the "Other Islam" U.S. News and World Report Online August 20, 2008
The real Fethullah Gülen Prospect [London] July 9, 2008
Interview with Dalia Fadila of the Al-Qasemi Academy in Israel Illyria [New York] April 14, 2008
People On Our Side: Baba Edmond Brahimaj, A Balkan Sufi Family Security Matters April 25, 2007
The PBS Controversy and Charles Le Gai Eaton Family Security Matters April 15, 2007
The "Sufi" Master of Deceit: Hamza Yusuf Hanson Family Security Matters April 11, 2007
Prof. Michael Sells on Ali al-Timimi and Wahhabi Version of Qur'an University of Chicago Divinity School December 20, 2006
A Dab of Adab Family Security Matters November 29, 2006
The Fatwa of 38 Tech Central Station November 6, 2006
With the Sufis of Israel Sephardic Heritage Update August 9, 2006
From Mecca to Jerusalem Tech Central Station April 14, 2005
Time to Take Saudi Arabia Seriously The Daily Standard March 14, 2005
How Should Non-Muslims Approach Islamic History? Tech Central Station March 2, 2005
Sufism and the Future of Islam Tech Central Station February 10, 2005
Getting to Know the Sufis The Weekly Standard February 7, 2005
Edited Replies to Queries from U.S. Senators on Wahhabism U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee June 27, 2003
The Real Islam The Atlantic Unbound [Transcript] March 20, 2003
The Two Faces of Islam C-SPAN Book Notes [Transcript] February 2, 2003
Which Islam? The Boston Globe December 15, 2002
The Good and the Bad National Review Online [Transcript] November 18, 2002
Trust, But Verify The Weekly Standard November 26, 2001
Recommended Wartime Reading National Review Online October 13, 2001
Muslim Holy Leaders Denounce Terrorism at Meeting San Francisco Chronicle August 13, 1998

Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
Encounters With Civilizations
by Gëzim Alpion
Folksmagazine [India] January 9, 2012
Sufis in Western Society: Global Networking and Locality
by Edited by Ron Geaves, Markus Dressler, and Gritt Klinkhammer.
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2011
Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious Life
by Jamil M. Abun-Nasr
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2010
The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony
by Stephen Schwartz
Illyria [New York] December 14, 2010
The Country Where No One Ever Dies
by Ornela Vorpsi
The Weekly Standard May 31, 2010
A Short Border Handbook
by Gazmend Kapllani
The Weekly Standard May 31, 2010
Islami Tjetër (Albanian edition of Schwartz's The Other Islam)
by Stephen Schwartz
Illyria [New York] August 6, 2009
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II
by Norman H. Gershman
The Weekly Standard June 1, 2009
The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony
by Stephen Schwartz
Toronto Sun March 7, 2009
The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony
by Stephen Schwartz
New York Post September 14, 2008
The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony
by Stephen Schwartz
Reforma [México] September 7, 2008
American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
by Paul M. Barrett
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2008
Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America after 9/11
by Geneive Abdo
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2008
Shattered Images: The Rise of Militant Iconoclasm in Syria
by Fred A. Reed
The Globe and Mail [Toronto] May 8, 2004
Abandon: "Sufi Surfing"
by Pico Iyer
The Weekly Standard September 22, 2003
Children of Abraham, 2 vols: An Introduction to Islam for Jews (Duran and Hechiche); An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims (Firestone)
by Khalid Duran and Abdulwehheb Hechiche; Reuven Firestone
National Review September 3, 2001
Death and the Dervish, The Fortress
by Meša Selimović
National Review Online June 17, 2000
Sarajevo Blues
by Semezdin Mehmedinović; Tr. by Ammiel Alcalay
San Francisco Chronicle January 10, 1999
The Rumi Collection
by Robert Bly, and others; Kabir Helminski, ed.
San Francisco Chronicle October 25, 1998

Announcements

Title Publication Date
CIP Executive Director Schwartz in Toronto, Canada Announcement March 16, 2011
Greetings for Milad-an-Nabi, AH 1432 Announcement March 1, 2011
New Book – 'My Visit to the Holy Land' Announcement February 4, 2011
Death Notice for CIP Associate Shpëtim Mahmudi Announcement June 3, 2010
Fatiha for the Blessed Sufi Shaykh Abd al-Aziz Bukhari Announcement June 3, 2010
On Sufism and Wahhabism Announcement May 4, 2010
Greetings on Sultan Nevruz Announcement March 21, 2010
Greetings to Muslims on Mevlud Announcement February 26, 2010
Extremely Urgent Call for Protest Against Attack on Harabati Sufi Complex in Tetovo Announcement May 4, 2008
Urgent Call for Protest Against Wahhabi Aggression in Macedonia Announcement March 11, 2008
CIP Protests Bombing of Shaykh Gailani Shrine in Baghdad Announcement May 28, 2007
Macedonian Sufis Endorse Executive Director Schwartz's Weekly Standard Article Announcement May 20, 2007
When Wahhabis Attack: The Case of The Harabati Tekke in Macedonia Announcement October 14, 2006
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz at Halveti Sufi School in Israel Announcement June 16, 2006
Death of Baba Tahir Emini in Macedonia Announcement February 17, 2006

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