Saida Miller Khalifa
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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 9-7899-608-6172-2. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CMOreBqoaKMC&pg=PA283&dq=%22Saida+Miller+Khalifa%22&hl=en&ei=WUcvTfXPK4S3hAevmNjmCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Saida%20Miller%20Khalifa%22&f=false.
- ^ a b c Wolfe, Michael (1998). One Thousand Roads to Mecca. Grove Press. p. 506. ISBN 9-7808-021-3599-5. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_84CPd7_exkC&pg=PA504&dq=%22Saida+Miller+Khalifa%22&hl=en&ei=WUcvTfXPK4S3hAevmNjmCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Saida%20Miller%20Khalifa%22&f=false.
- ^ Salam, Khair Abdul; Khair, Zulkifli (2007). Cerita-cerita motivasi untuk ibadah haji dan umrah. PTS Litera Utama. pp. 46. ISBN 9-7898-333-7246-1. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eU3n8CvEoYAC&pg=RA1-PA46&dq=%22Saida+Miller+Khalifa%22&hl=en&ei=vUovTb2wKMOFhQfbxaXmCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCkQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=%22Saida%20Miller%20Khalifa%22&f=false.
- ^ Khalifa, Saida Miller (1977). The fifth pillar: the story of a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Exposition Press. ISBN 9-7806-824-8772-6. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9PskAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Saida+Miller+Khalifa%22&dq=%22Saida+Miller+Khalifa%22&hl=en&ei=WUcvTfXPK4S3hAevmNjmCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAQ.
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