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Stephen Suleyman Schwartz (born September 9, 1948) is an American Sufi〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Center for Islamic Pluralism )〕 journalist, columnist, and author. He has been published in a variety of media, including ''The Wall Street Journal''.〔E.g., see Schwartz's ''Intellectuals and Assassins'' (2001).〕 He is the founder and executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Islamic Pluralism. In 2011–2012 he was a member of Folks Magazine's Editorial Board. He has been an adherent of the Hanafi school of Islam since 1997.〔 He is a critic of Islamic Fundamentalism, especially the Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam. ==Early life== Schwartz was born in Columbus, Ohio to Horace Schwartz, a Jewish independent bookseller. His mother, the daughter of a Protestant preacher, was a career social services worker. Schwartz later described both of his parents as "radical leftists and quite antireligious", his father a "fellow traveller", his mother a member of the Communist Party. He was baptized in the Presbyterian church as an infant.〔 The family moved to San Francisco when he was young, where his father Horace became a literary agent. At Lowell High School〔 Schwartz made his first serious writing attempts, focusing initially on poetry. He became affiliated with Leninist communism until 1984.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Suleyman Schwartz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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