Editing Daniel Pipes (section)

==Early life and education==
The son of Irene (née Roth) and [[Richard Pipes]], Daniel Pipes was born into a Jewish family in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], in 1949.<ref name=Press>{{cite magazine  | first = Eyal | last = Press | url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1367/is_200405/ai_n6382769  | title = Neocon man: Daniel Pipes has made his name inveighing against an academy overrun by political extremists. | magazine = The Nation | date = May 2004 | access-date = August 17, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071113071644/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1367/is_200405/ai_n6382769 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = November 13, 2007}}</ref>  His parents had each fled [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German-occupied Poland]] with their families, and they met in the United States.<ref>Richard Pipes. ''Vixi: memoirs of a non-belonger''. 2006, page 2; page 50</ref> His father, Richard Pipes, was a historian at [[Harvard University]], specializing in Russia, and Daniel Pipes grew up primarily in the [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] area.

Pipes attended the Harvard pre-school, then received a private school education, partly abroad. He enrolled in Harvard University, where his father was a professor, in the fall of 1967. For his first two years he studied [[mathematics]] but said he "found the material too abstract".<ref name=Ballon>{{cite news |title=Daniel Pipes fights the worldwide threat of Islamism – from Malibu|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4326 |last=Ballon|first=Marc|work=[[Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]|date=March 6, 2007|access-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref><ref name=Tassel>{{cite news|first=Janet|last=Tassel|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/01/militant-about-islamism.html|title=Militant about "Islamism"|work=[[Harvard Magazine]]|access-date=May 26, 2016|date=January–February 2005}}</ref> After visiting the [[Sahara Desert]] in 1968, the [[Sinai Desert]] in 1969,<ref name=Tassel/> and travels in West Africa, he changed his major to [[History of the Middle East|Middle Eastern history]].<ref name=Ballon/> He obtained a [[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]] in [[history]] in 1971. His senior thesis was a study of [[Al-Ghazali]] and other Muslim philosophers.<ref name=Tassel/>  After graduating in 1971, Pipes spent two years in [[Cairo, Egypt|Cairo]], then earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in 1978, also from Harvard.<ref name=Ballon/> He wrote a book on colloquial [[Egyptian Arabic]], published in 1983.<ref>{{cite book|first=Daniel|last=Pipes|year=1983|title=An Arabist's Guide to Egyptian Colloquial|url=https://www.danielpipes.org/books/an-arabists-guide-to-egyptian-colloquial.pdf|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Foreign Service Institute|lccn=83081668}}</ref>