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]