The opening of Umm Zakiyyah’s trilogy is intriguing. “I’m tired of this!” Tamika kicked her dormitory room door in disgust. Her roommate’s clothes were thrown carelessly about the room. A pair of shorts still lay untouched on her roommate’s desk. They had been there for two days already. […]
Realities of Submission By Umm Zakiyyah (Al-Walaa Publishing) After reading her trilogy(If I should speak, A Voice and Footsteps), I knew that Umm Zakiyyah is a writer to look out for. Her style and content of work is phenomenal. Realities of Submission is about some of the character's journey to their natural religion […]
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 […]