This site has been created as a supplement to the new edition of the Diwan of Sidi
Muhammad ibn Habib published in 2022 by Quilliam Press.
We are grateful to Sidi Ian Abdal Latif Whiteman, who designed this edition of the Diwan, for permission to use its cover as well as certain media files for this site. We are also grateful to Zakaria Ait Oufkir for creating this site and helping us learn how to use it. Besides this site, Zakaria is the creator of a beautiful site about the traditional sites of Marrakesh, Shadhârât Murrakushiyya.
Sidi Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk and Sidi Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald, who have contributed most of the text quoted on this site, are the translators of the revised edition of the Diwan. In addition to the Diwan, they have collaborated on the translation of several works by Imam al-Ghazali as well as by Sidi Ahmad Ibn Ajiba, all of which have been published by Fons Vitae, and the Letters of the Shaykh al-Darqawi published by Mecca Books.
(R to L: Ian Abdal Latif Whiteman, Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald, Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk)
Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk
Sidi Mohamed Fouad was born and raised in Marrakesh, Morocco, in a traditional family, the son of an Arabic teacher and a pious and caring mother, and the grandson of a well-known and much-loved Qur’an teacher.
Sidi Mohamed Fouad completed his degree in Islamic Studies and Arabic at Qadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, but has never stopped studying, particularly the books of the Sufis, and is the author of Al-Rashâd fi Zubdati Al-Awrâd, a commentary on the litany of Sidi Muhammad ibn al-Habib, from which we have quoted extensively for this site.
Mohamed Fouad Aresmouk
Sidi Mohamed Fouad was born and raised in Marrakesh, Morocco, in a traditional family, the son of an Arabic teacher and a pious and caring mother, and the grandson of a well-known and much-loved Qur’an teacher.
Sidi Mohamed Fouad completed his degree in Islamic Studies and Arabic at Qadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, but has never stopped studying, particularly the books of the Sufis, and is the author of Al-Rashâd fi Zubdati Al-Awrâd, a commentary on the litany of Sidi Muhammad ibn al-Habib, from which we have quoted extensively for this site.
Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald
Sidi Abdurrahman is originally from California and migrated with his wife to Morocco in the late 1970s. Since that time has been involved in education and the study of Arabic, Islam, and Sufism.
Sidi Abdurrahman holds degrees from the University of California, Davis, and Shenandoah University, Virginia. He and his wife Jamila continue to live in Morocco not far from their two daughters and seven grandchildren.
Both Sidi Fouad and Sidi Abdurrahman are part-founders of the Center for Language & Culture in Marrakesh.
