But he told her that, to his chagrin, nothing in the library on that topic was written by Muslims. “She wanted to study about Prophet Muhammad and what he said about god and her opinion was if she could find it irrational, as she expected, she would abandon this subject once and for all,” the book states.Īssami then asked her father to help her find a book on the Prophet Muhammad. (Her father, a scientist, did not believe in God.) But she first grew interested in Islam after a biased comparative religion presentation by a history teacher. “She wished she had God who could talk to her and guide her like the Prophets had.”Īccording to that biography, Assami grew up in a family of atheists. “She was always seeking after Truth but her father did not believe in God,” a biography of Assami in Why Women Are Accepting Islam states. These days, she’s better known as Umm Muhammad to followers, or by her chosen name, Aminah.
But before long, she found meaning in the Qur’an and pursued language studies at Damascus University, eventually converting to Islam and moving to Saudi Arabia. While her peers were busy getting high in bellbottoms, Emily Assami spent the 1970s studying Arabic in Damascus, Syria, where the California-born woman had moved with her Arab husband.
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