Saida Miller Khalifa is an author and convert to Islam.[1] She was born Sonya Miller in Great Britain and converted in 1959.[2] She met her husband, an Egyptian professor named Yusry Khalifa,[3] a year later after having taken the name Saida.[1] They both went on the Hajj in 1970,[2] three years after moving to Cairo.[1] Saida then published a short narrative of the trip entitled The Fifth Pillar of Islam.[1][4]
Currently out of print, The Fifth Pillar is reprinted in Michael Wolfe's One Thousand Roads to Mecca.[2]
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- ^ a b c d Shahid, Muhammad Haneef (2002). Why Women Are Accepting Islam. Darussalam. pp. 282–284. ISBN 978-9960-861-72-2.
- ^ a b c Wolfe, Michael (1998). One Thousand Roads to Mecca. Grove Press. p. 506. ISBN 978-0-8021-3599-5.
- ^ Salam, Khair Abdul; Khair, Zulkifli (2007). Cerita-cerita motivasi untuk ibadah haji dan umrah. PTS Litera Utama. p. 46. ISBN 978-983-3372-46-1.
- ^ Khalifa, Saida Miller (1977). The fifth pillar: the story of a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Exposition Press. ISBN 978-0-682-48772-6.
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