Center for Islamic Pluralism

CIP is an international network of moderate Muslim religious scholars, journalists, authors and community leaders. It includes believers in both Sunni and Shia interpretations of Islam, and participants in the spiritual tradition of Sufism. It was established in 2004 by the American writer Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, who became Muslim in 1997 and is the author of a best-selling study of Saudi-financed Islamic fundamentalism (Wahhabism), The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism,