Stephen Suleyman Schwartz is an American Sufi journalist, columnist, and author. He has been published in a variety of media, including The Wall Street Journal. He is the executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism. In August 2011 he was elected as member of Folks Magazine's Editorial Board. His background is on the traditional political left, and much of his journalism has focused on Marxism, Communism and anarchism, but Schwartz now describes himself as a libertarian. He has been a student of Sufism since the late 1960s and an adherent of the Hanafi school of Islam since 1997. He is a critic of Islamic Fundamentalism, especially the Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam. 

September 9th, 1948 in Columbus (Age 76)