Leila Aboulela won the first Caine Prize for African Writing. Her new novel Lyrics Alley is set in 1950s Sudan and is based on the life of her uncle the poet Hassan Awad Aboulela who wrote the lyrics for many popular Sudanese songs. Leila is the author of two other novels: The Translator, one of […]
Jamilah Kolocotronis, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, is the author of seven books, six fiction and one non-fiction. Her best known work is the five-book Echoes Series which chronicles the life of Joshua Adams, an American Muslim convert. Jamilah herself converted to Islam in 1980. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Science Education from […]
Linda Delgado, known by many as Widad, is a Muslim revert, the mother of three and grandmother of eight. She is a graduate of the University of Phoenix and retired as a Sergeant in 2000 from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Widad is the owner-publisher of Muslim Writers Publishing: a traditional Muslim publishing house. […]
Na’ima B Robert is a published author and magazine publisher. Na’ima defines herself as ‘Muslim, Black, mixed-race, Southern African, Western, revert and woman all in one’. Descended from Scottish Highlanders on her father’s side and the Zulu people on her mother’s side, she was born in Leeds and grew up in Zimbabwe. She went on […]
Sufiya is the author of the Zahra series which follows the adventures of a young British Muslim girl. Sufiya’s published novels include ‘Zahra’s First Term at the Khadija Academy’ and ‘Zahra’s Great Debate’, the former of which was shortlisted in the Best Published Book Category at the 2008 Muslim Writers Awards in the UK. Her […]
Umm Zakiyyah was born in 1975 in Long Island, New York, to formerly Christian parents Clark and Delores Moore. That year, Clark and Delores converted to Islam and subsequently changed their names to Muhammad and Fareedah Siddeeq after spending years in the Nation of Islam under the late Elijah Muhammad. Umm Zakiyyah spent most of […]
Amatullah Al-Marwani embraced Islam in 1996. She was a California resident, wife, mother of Amirah and Zaahir, public speaker, teacher, author, web-developer, and President of ISLAM in Action. At the time of her death she was employed as a librarian at the Granada Islamic School. On April 29, 2005 Sister Amatullah died several weeks after […]