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Scholar of Islam, papyrologist and paleographer

Nabia Abbott (31 January – 15 October ) was an American scholar of Islam, papyrologist and paleographer.

She was the first woman professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. She gained worldwide recognition for her researches into the emergence of the Arabic script and the oldest written documents of Islam.

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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, , 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 she completed her undergraduate studies with honours at the Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow.^[2]

After her graduation, Nabia returned for a sh