Abdurrahman Fitzgerald has been involved in education and the study of Arabic, Islam, and Sufism for the past thirty years, holding degrees from the University of California and Shenandoah University, Virginia, and is the director of the Center for Language and Culture in Marrakesh. He co-translated Ibn al-Qayyim on the Invocation of God (Islamic Text Society, 2000) and edited and annotated Denys Johnson-Davies's translation of al-Ghazali's Kitab adab al-akl (Islamic Texts Society, 2000), as well as Dr. Kenneth Honerkamp's edition of al-Rasa 'il al-kubra by Ibn 'Abbad (Dar al-Machreq, 2005).