Nabia Abbott
An Iraqi academic who majored in Islamic history, she completed her primary education in Baghdad, obtained a master's degree in history from Boston University in 1925, obtained American citizenship after her residency in the United States.
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nabia Abbott 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. 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.
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