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Nabia Abbott
Scholar of Islam, papyrologist and paleographer
Nabia Abbott (31 January 1897 – 15 October 1981) was an American scholar of Islam, papyrologist and paleographer.
She was the first woman professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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She gained worldwide recognition for her researches into the emergence of the Arabic script and the oldest written documents of Islam. She was also a pioneer in the study of early Muslim women. Especially noteworthy was her biography of Aisha, one of the wives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[1]
Biography
Nabia Abbott was born on January 31, 1897, in Mardin, Ottoman Empire.
Her father was a Christian merchant whose business activities brought his family first to Mosul, then to Baghdad and finally to Bombay. There she attended various English-language schools. In 1919 she completed her undergraduate studies with honours at the Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow.[2]
After her graduation, Nabia