Netanel Miles-Yépez, founder of Albion Andalus Books, is an artist, philosopher, religion scholar, and spiritual teacher. He is the current head of the Inayati-Maimuni lineage of Sufism, and is considered a leading thinker in the Interspiritual and New Monasticism movements. Netanel studied History of Religions at Michigan State University and Contemplative Religion at the Naropa Institute, before pursuing traditional studies with such spiritual luminaries as Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, and Father Thomas Keating, founder of Contemplative Outreach. Currently, Netanel lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he serves on the faculty of Naropa University as Chair of Religious Studies and Director of the Keating-Schachter Center for Interspirituality (a project of Charis Foundation: charisinterspirituality.org).