Saida Miller Khalifa Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Shahid, Muhammad Haneef. Why Women Are Accepting Islam. 2002. Darussalam. 978-9960-861-72-2. 282–284.
2. Book: One Thousand Roads to Mecca. Michael. Wolfe. 1998. Grove Press. 506. 978-0-8021-3599-5.
3. Book: Salam. Khair Abdul . Khair. Zulkifli. Cerita-cerita motivasi untuk ibadah haji dan umrah. 2007. PTS Litera Utama. 978-983-3372-46-1. 46.
4. Book: Khalifa, Saida Miller. The fifth pillar: the story of a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. 1977. Exposition Press. 978-0-682-48772-6.