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Title Publication Date
On Friedman, Hayek, Chile Financial Times Weekend October 30, 2021
San Francisco Transwoman Requests Asylum in Israel, Backs Bibi CIP/2nd Bektashi Sufi Mission to the West/Institut Boscana May 26, 2021
Our Founder's Transition and Political Candidacy in San Francisco 2020 March 23, 2021
Confession Illyria [New York] April 7, 2020
ICTY-The Hague: A Lesson in Modern History OpEdNews November 18, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi CIP October 18, 2018
Who Kills Journalists? OpEdNews October 13, 2018
John McCain 1936-2108 CIP August 26, 2018
Execution of Mohammad Salas, Iranian Sufi Dervish Illyria [New York] June 18, 2018
Totalitarianism Isn't Reformable Frontpagemag June 8, 2018
Reform or repression? Saudi's new ruler plays both ways Jenny Taylor Media June 6, 2018
WHY WE FIGHT: The Matter of MEK Folksmagazine [India] May 28, 2018
Foundation of the Second Bektashi Sufi Mission to America Illyria [New York] May 8, 2018
Mueller Releases Indictments, While Our Founder Is Silenced on Anti-Social Media CIP February 16, 2018
Fox News, Twitter Enable Fascist Massacres CIP February 15, 2018
Our Founder and Social Media CIP December 25, 2017
Who is S. Auden Schwartz? The Boston Globe December 6, 2017
Earthly Beauty quora.com November 26, 2017
At The Tomb of the Prophet Samuel (Nabi Samwil) CIP November 21, 2017
10 Theses on the Coup in Saudi Arabia CIP November 5, 2017
Against Fascism, CIP Publishes on Muslim Jewish Life CIP October 30, 2017
'Fake News' Regarding Antiquities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia CIP October 24, 2017
We STILL Accuse! CIP September 6, 2017
Greetings for an Antifascist Bajram Illyria [New York] September 1, 2017
'Designating' Antifa a Terrorist Organization Is a Bad Idea National Review August 31, 2017
This Is Our Barcelona Center for Islamic Pluralism August 21, 2017
What you need to know about antifa Jewish Telegraphic Agency August 16, 2017
Why are religious conservatives embracing transgender rights? Transformation -- WHERE LOVE MEETS SOCIAL JUSTICE! August 16, 2017
Assad's Hollow Crown The Rubin Center May 9, 2017
The Birth Anniversary of al-Abbas ibn Ali (p) Imam Mahdi Association of Marjaeya April 30, 2017
The Syrian Sarin Attacks of August 2013 and April 2017 The Besa Center April 26, 2017
Replies to Questions About Sufism From A High School Teacher in Columbia, Missouri, USA CIP April 22, 2017
CIP Greetings on International Day of Solidarity With Working Women Quora.com March 8, 2017
Is Iran Ratcheting Up Influence-Peddling in American Universities? American Thinker October 22, 2016
CIP Greetings on the Islamic Ashura and Jewish Yom Kippur Illyria [New York] October 10, 2016
CIP Greetings to Muslims on Kurban Bajram/Eid Al-Adha/Eid Ghorban, Islamic Hijri Year 1437 CIP September 12, 2016
Kosova Continues Confronting Radical Islam The Weekly Standard Blog August 16, 2016
İbrahim Kalın: Erdoğan's U.S.-Trained Enforcer Independent Journal Review August 2, 2016
The Dilemma of the Turkish State Lapido Media [London] July 21, 2016
Saudis Announce a Turn Away from Wahhabi Cultural Vandalism The Weekly Standard Blog July 19, 2016
Zakir Naik: More Hype than Hope for Muslims CIP July 15, 2016
Ramadan ends in blood Lapido Media [London] July 13, 2016
CIP Greetings to Muslims on Eid Al-Fitr/Ramazan Bajram 1437 A.H. CIP July 6, 2016
A Faint Ray Of Light Through The Darkness The Huffington Post June 21, 2016
Meet America's Foremost Advocate of Islamic Pluralism Clarion Project April 12, 2016
Center for Islamic Pluralism Greetings on Sulltan Nevruz Illyria [New York] March 21, 2016
The Significance of Tasawwuf [Sufism] in Light of Contemporary Global Issues Illyria [New York] March 17, 2016
Saudi Arabia and its links to 'Islamic State' Lapido Media [London] February 12, 2016
CIP 2015 Appeal for End-of-Year Donations CIP December 27, 2015
Baba Arshiu Bazaj of Taylor, Michigan, dies at 109 Illyria [New York] December 26, 2015
Iran Meddles in Nigeria's Sectarian Strife The Weekly Standard Blog December 23, 2015
Female Genital Mutilation Reportedly Imposed by ISIS The Weekly Standard Blog November 30, 2015
The Lesson of the Albanians Illyria [New York] November 28, 2015
Blood and Ballots in Turkey TheWorldPost [The Huffington Post and Berggruen Institute on Governance] October 26, 2015
Ashura Greetings – 10th of Muharram 1437 A.H. Illyria [New York] October 24, 2015
Is the beleaguered Saudi kingdom headed for collapse? Lapido Media [London] October 7, 2015
The Crimes at Palmyra The Huffington Post September 3, 2015
Center for Islamic Pluralism Eid Al-Fitr Greetings, 1436/2015 CIP July 17, 2015
Kosova vs. Iranians and ISIS The Weekly Standard Blog June 30, 2015
Iran's Kurdish Rebellion TheWorldPost [The Huffington Post and Berggruen Institute on Governance] May 22, 2015
Center for Islamic Pluralism Greetings to People of the Book on Their Holidays CIP April 3, 2015
Center for Islamic Pluralism Greetings on Sulltan Nevruz CIP March 20, 2015
Iranian Propagandists in Kosova The Weekly Standard Blog March 19, 2015
'Mosque war' in the UK Lapido Media [London] February 20, 2015
Famous Communists and Islam First Things Blog February 11, 2015
The Life and Martyrdom of Father Shtjefën Gjeçovi-Kryeziu, O.F.M. Illyria [New York] January 22, 2015
Female Genital Mutilation a Growing Problem in Iran The Weekly Standard Blog January 20, 2015
US$3 billion a year to produce extremists O Estado de São Paulo (Brazil) January 18, 2015
Albanian Flag Day 2014 Illyria [New York] November 28, 2014
Radical face of Saudi Wahhabism The Hindu [Chennai, India] November 19, 2014
Mecca under threat The Independent [London] November 12, 2014
Jailed Iranian Ayatollah Calls Regime 'Worse and More Evil than ISIS or the Taliban' The Weekly Standard Blog November 11, 2014
Ashura In the Shadow of New Terrorism The Huffington Post November 3, 2014
Saudi Wahhabism and ISIS Wahhabism: The Difference The Weekly Standard Blog October 21, 2014
Pope Francis in Albania: Four Lessons The Huffington Post September 26, 2014
More Arbitrary Repression in Iran The Weekly Standard Blog September 16, 2014
Curing Wahhabism, The "Syphilis of Islam" Islamidades [Brazil-México] August 18, 2014
Iranians vs. "Hanging Judges" The Weekly Standard Blog August 5, 2014
Dissident Iranian Ayatollah Again Denounces Tehran from Prison The Weekly Standard Blog July 29, 2014
Sunni Muslims Must Reject ISIS "Caliphate" Gatestone Institute July 20, 2014
Kudos to the Iraqi Kurds The Weekly Standard Blog July 16, 2014
Ramadan Amid the New Middle East Crisis The Huffington Post June 27, 2014
Europe's Muslims: Can We Have a Common Template? Illyria [New York] May 24, 2014
Harsh Repression Continues Against Iranian Dissidents The Weekly Standard Blog April 29, 2014
Erdoğan's Twitter Slip on Ukraine - An Affinity for Putin? Gatestone Institute March 31, 2014
Center for Islamic Pluralism Greetings on Sulltan Nevruz Illyria [New York] March 20, 2014
Tehran Regime Targets Women in War on Sufis and Other Dissidents The Weekly Standard Blog March 12, 2014
Greetings to Muslims on Mevlud, 2014 C.E. CIP January 14, 2014
Why Iranian Sufis Do Not Believe in Tehran's 'New Diplomacy' The Weekly Standard Blog January 6, 2014
On Faik Beg Konica [1876-1942] Illyria [New York] November 28, 2013
On Faik Beg Konica (1876-1942) [.pdf[ Illyria [New York] November 28, 2013
Ashura 1435 A.H. – With Mourning and Shame CIP November 14, 2013
Eid Al-Adha – Kurban Bayram Greetings A.H. 1434 CIP October 15, 2013
Turkey Protests New Police Aggression Gatestone Institute September 19, 2013
Days of Awe… and Shock CIP September 14, 2013
Albanian Islam, The Best Example of Islam in the World Impakt [Tirana] September 5, 2013
Iran Steps Up Threats To Sufis The Weekly Standard Blog August 27, 2013
Destroying Islam's Holiest Shrine for Al-Assad? Gatestone Institute August 26, 2013
Eid Al-Fitr – Bayram Greetings A.H. 1434 CIP August 8, 2013
Heavy Repression of Iranian Sufis Indicates Rohani's Path The Weekly Standard Blog July 22, 2013
FGM Debate Continues in Muslim Lands Gatestone Institute July 18, 2013
Fear of Syrian Sectarianism Spreads Beyond Middle East to Other Muslims The Weekly Standard Blog July 9, 2013
CIP Executive Director Schwartz Speaks on Sufi Self-Defense Hudson Institute June 15, 2013
Conflict Among Islamic Believers Dnevnik [Macedonia] June 3, 2013
Religious persecution can mean political upheaval The Washington Times May 16, 2013
An Appeal to International Organisations Against Attacks and Atrocities At Sacred Sites CIP May 15, 2013
The Real Erdoğan Gatestone Institute May 13, 2013
CIP Executive Director Endorses Denial of Islamic Funeral for Terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev CIP May 7, 2013
What is Really "Broken" In Syria? Gatestone Institute March 29, 2013
Terror Against Hazara Muslim Minority in Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan The Weekly Standard Blog March 19, 2013
Fatwa Fanatics – The Deobandi-Wahhabi Lust for Control Over Personal Life Millat Times [India] March 11, 2013
The Iran Lobby Buys a Friendly Face for Despotism American Thinker March 10, 2013
"Moderate" Turkey Gatestone Institute March 6, 2013
Video shows Syria's ancient synagogue destroyed by regime forces Al Arabiya [Dubai] March 2, 2013
Iranian Sufis Defy Tehran Dictatorship The Weekly Standard Blog February 27, 2013
The War of Ideologies in the Arab World Gatestone Institute February 25, 2013
Guilty Verdict of Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal on 1971 Atrocities CIP February 11, 2013
Greetings for Milad-an-Nabi A.H. 1434 CIP January 23, 2013
Iran: "The Supporting Pole of the Regime's Tent is Bent" Gatestone Institute December 10, 2012
Pakistan May Lose Crucial Backing as Saudi Arabia Turns to India The Weekly Standard Blog October 25, 2012
Saudi Arabia's 'Religious Police' Reforms The Weekly Standard Blog October 9, 2012
Iran's 'Think Tank' Outreach The Weekly Standard Blog September 26, 2012
The Legacy of September 11, 2001 CIP September 11, 2012
Alawites in Syria and Alevis in Turkey: Crucial Differences Gatestone Institute August 17, 2012
Erdoğan's Turkish Government Suppresses Alevi Muslim Minority The Weekly Standard Blog July 18, 2012
Dissident Warnings From Iran The Huffington Post June 28, 2012
Wahhabi Internal Contradictions as Saudi Arabia Seeks Wider Gulf Leadership The Weekly Standard Blog May 21, 2012
Avoiding Arab-Muslim heart of darkness Toronto Sun May 5, 2012
How Powerful is Hafiz Saeed? Folksmagazine [India] April 24, 2012
Wahhabi Hate-Mongers' Sham "Peace Convention" Gatestone Institute April 16, 2012
Erdoğan, Iran, Syrian Alawites, and Turkish Alevis The Weekly Standard Blog March 29, 2012
Turkish Islamist Regime Set to Condone Massacre Stonegate Institute March 19, 2012
Shia Muslims Massacred in Pakistan Folksmagazine [India] March 1, 2012
Sufis Under Fire in Macedonia Inside Islam [University of Wisconsin/Wisconsin Public Radio] February 22, 2012
Muslim Women I Love Most CIP February 2, 2012
Turkey Leaps Toward Islamist Dictatorship Folksmagazine [India] January 15, 2012
Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia Persecution.org 2011
Ashura – The Continuing Martyrdom Folksmagazine [India] December 12, 2011
Exploring blood-soaked roots of Arab feud Toronto Sun December 10, 2011
The "Arab Spring" and Turkish Neo-Islamists Folksmagazine [India] December 5, 2011
Mourning a Beloved Iranian Sufi Singer, 10 Years Later The Huffington Post November 30, 2011
Sectarian tensions reveal Arab fault line Toronto Sun November 19, 2011
Hajj: What It Has Become and What It Should Be Again The Huffington Post November 9, 2011
An Eid Al-Adha Manifesto Folksmagazine [India] November 7, 2011
Is the Taking of Tripoli the Turning Point? Folksmagazine [India[ August 28, 2011
The New Arab Revolutions Folksmagazine [India] August 8, 2011
Iraqi Kurdistan Passes Law Against FGM Hudson Institute New York June 27, 2011
Saudi Wahhabis vs. Women Who Want to Drive Cars The Weekly Standard Blog May 25, 2011
Geopolitics and Sociology of Islam NewsGram [India] May 13, 2011
Bin Laden and Pakistan The Huffington Post/NewsGram [India] May 10, 2011
Lessons for Bashar Al-Assad From Nicolae Ceausescu NewsGram [India] April 29, 2011
Egyptian Muslim Fundamentalists Attack Sufis The Guardian Online [London] April 11, 2011
Kryegjysh Boterorë Haxhi Dede Reshat Bardhi, 1935-2011 Illyria [New York] April 5, 2011
Saudi Arabia's anti-protest fatwa is transparent The Guardian Online [London] April 1, 2011
How religion underwrites the unrest in Syria and Yemen Lapido Media [London] April 1, 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
When in Rome National Post [Toronto] March 31, 2011
The Canadian Front Against Radical Islam NewsGram [India] March 26, 2011
Greetings on Sulltan Nevruz [.pdf] Illyria [New York] March 25, 2011
Meditations on Sultan Nevruz Illyria [New York] March 25, 2011
Gulf Cooperation Council Between Two Fires in Bahrain and Libya The Weekly Standard Blog March 22, 2011
Schwartz debates Juan Cole and Hisham Hellyer on Bahrain intervention RT [Russia Today] Crosstalk March 17, 2011
Saudi Protests So Far Subdued The Weekly Standard Blog March 14, 2011
Voice of Moderates in Islam NewsGram [India] March 12, 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
Saudi Wahhabis Accused of Removing Relics From the Time of Prophet Muhammad Shiite News January 22, 2011
Imprisoned Iranian Ayatollah Offers Hanukkah Greetings to Jews The Weekly Standard Blog December 11, 2010
Greetings for Muharram 1432 and Hanukkah 5771 CIP December 1, 2010
Britain and Pakistan: The Rich Taliban Vs. the Poor Muslim Hudson Institute New York October 15, 2010
A Mosque Grows Near Brooklyn The Weekly Standard July 26, 2010
Zakir Naik: "Peace TV" Calls for Terrorism Hudson Institute New York July 2, 2010
CIP's "Truth About Shariah" Program Hudson Institute New York June 29, 2010
Why Canadian Muslims are different National Post [Toronto] April 6, 2010
Greetings on Sultan Nevruz CIP March 21, 2010
Iraq election could change history Toronto Sun March 20, 2010
Iran's Opposition Comes to Washington The Weekly Standard Blog January 25, 2010
Iran: "Loving Executions Too Much" Hudson Institute New York January 15, 2010
Yemen and How It Got That Way The Weekly Standard Blog January 14, 2010
On the Death of Iranian Ayatollah Husayn Ali Montazeri CIP December 20, 2009
Greetings for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Holidays CIP December 11, 2009
Thank You America – And Damn You, You Bastards Al-Bayyna Al-Jadida [Baghdad] July 1, 2009
Ashura in America The Daily Standard January 18, 2009
Paying a Call on the Saudi Embassy The Weekly Standard November 5, 2007
Islamofascism On Point September 6, 2006
All Politics Is Local - Even in Lebanon TCS Daily July 28, 2006
Statement on Ahmadinejad CIP November 8, 2005
The Shia Turn in U.S. Policy Tech Central Station March 24, 2005
Time to Take Saudi Arabia Seriously The Daily Standard March 14, 2005
The Face of Iraqi Terrorism The Daily Standard March 4, 2005
"I Call the President Imam Bush": Tech Central Station December 22, 2004
Without Delay! The Vote Must Go On! Tech Central Station November 29, 2004
A Saudi Protest March The Daily Standard November 15, 2004
Murderous Monotheists The Weekly Standard October 11, 2004
The Good Ayatollah The Weekly Standard July 19, 2004
Return of Tet? Tech Central Station April 12, 2004
Reading Najaf The Daily Standard September 3, 2003
Wahhabi Fireworks New York Post July 14, 2003
CLASSIC CIP: Wahhabi Strain of Islam Faulted The Washington Post June 27, 2003
Edited Replies to Queries from U.S. Senators on Wahhabism U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee June 27, 2003
Muslim Cheers for Wolfowitz New York Post May 31, 2003
Fear Not the Shias The Weekly Standard March 24, 2003
The Real Islam The Atlantic Unbound [Transcript] March 20, 2003

Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence
by Sander L. Gilman
Society February 21, 2017
The Teachings of the Bektashi Sufis [Nauk Bektašijskog Tarikata (In Bosnian)]: The First Bosnian-Language Survey of Bektashism
by Senad Mičijević
Illyria [New York] July 27, 2016
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
by Noel Malcolm
The Weekly Standard February 8, 2016
Shi'i Islam: An Introduction
by Najam Haider
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2015
Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice
by Marion Holmes Katz
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2015
Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam
by Markus Dressler
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2014
Mecca: The Sacred City
by Ziauddin Sardar
The Weekly Standard October 20, 2014
The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb
by Frances Trix
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2013
The Next Founders
by Joshua Muravchik
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2011
The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony
by Stephen Schwartz
Illyria [New York] December 14, 2010
American Crescent: A Muslim Cleric on the Power of His Faith, the Struggle against Prejudice, and the Future of Islam in America
by Imam Hassan Qazwini
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2009
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
The Shia Revival
by Vali Nasr
New York Post October 1, 2006
The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran And America
by Kenneth M. Pollack
New York Post December 19, 2004
The Trouble With Islam
by Irshad Manji
The Globe and Mail [Toronto] September 20, 2003

Announcements

Title Publication Date
CIP 2013 Appeal For End-of-Year Donations Announcement December 30, 2013
POSTPONED CIP Executive Director Schwartz Washington, DC Event Announcement February 21, 2013
CIP Publishes Revised Shariah Report on Kindle Announcement January 23, 2013
Not Silent Any More! Announcement October 17, 2012
CIP Executive Director Schwartz in Toronto, Canada Announcement March 16, 2011
Condensation of 2009 CIP Euro-Shariah Report Published Announcement September 24, 2009
Muslim Anti-Wahhabi Protest, Washington, DC Announcement September 23, 2009
Hatemonger Al-Marayati Denounces CIP Announcement August 28, 2008

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