Sabat Islambouli | |
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Born | 1867 |
Died | 1941 (aged 73–74) |
Alma mater | Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania |
Occupation | Physician |
Sabat M. Islambouli (1867–1941)[1][2] was a Syrian-born physician, of Kurdish–Jewish heritage. She is the first known female physician from Syria.[3][4] She has had variations of the spelling of her name, and is also known as Sabat Islambooly, Tabat Islambouly, Tabat Istanbuli, Thabat Islambooly, and more.[5]
Islambouli was born to a Kurdish–Jewish family.[5][6] She studied at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in the US starting in 1885.[7][8] She graduated with her medical degree in 1890.[9][7]
Islambouli is believed to have gone back to Damascus after she graduated, and then to Cairo in 1919 according to the college's alumnae list.[10] After that, the college lost touch with her. Little is known of what happened to her once she left the United States.[11] She died in 1941.[5]