Dr. De Lorenzo is a scholar steeped in traditional Islamic learning. After completing his undergraduate studies in the USA he went abroad to Pakistan where he completed three years of research for his doctoral dissertation on the Legal Rulings of the Qur’an at Bahawalpur University.

He studied the classical Islamic sciences for eight years with both Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf al Bannuri and the Grand Mufti of Pakistan, Mufti Wali Hasan in the acclaimed Dar ‘Ulum al Islamiyyah in Karachi, Pakistan. He has twenty-five years of incomparable experience in teaching and research along with work in the translation of Islamic texts from Arabic, classical Persian, and Urdu. He has specialized in interpreting Islamic legal texts regarding trade and finance.

Quoted as being 'one of the gems of England...' by Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari, Shaykh Abdur Raheem is a master of Qur'anic exegesis and the Arabic language. He initially studied at Dar al-Ulum Bury (UK), where he is now the resident expositor of Imam Muslim's hadith collection, and graduated from the famous seat of learnig Mazahir al-Ulum, Saharanpur (India) under the tutorship of Shaykhul Hadith Moulana Yunus (May Allah presever him). He has also specialises in Tafseer particularly in the major Tafseer work of Imaam Baydhawi.

He has published two books in the English language 'Ahsanul Qasas' -the story of the Prophet Yusuf (alayhis salam) and the Dawah of Sayidduna Nuh (alayhis salam).