Sabat_Islambooly

Sabat Islambouli

Sabat Islambouli

First licensed female doctor in Syria

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]

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Medical training

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]

Later life

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]

References

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    Khayat, Nicole; Kozma, Liat (2023-04-01). Toplumsal Tarih: Sayı: 352 [Social History] (in Turkish). Vol. 352. Vakfı.
  2. [2]
    Kozma, Liat; Khayat, Nicole (2022-03-01). "Gendered Struggles over the Medical Profession in the Modern Middle East and North Africa". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 18 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1215/15525864-9494108. ISSN 1552-5864.
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    Rao, Mallika (8 April 2014). "Meet The Three Female Medical Students Who Destroyed Gender Norms A Century Ago" – via Huff Post.
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    Journal of the American Medical Women's Association. Vol. 15. American Medical Women's Association. American Medical Women's Association. 1960. p. 1177.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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    "UPDATED: Sabat Istanbuly, Female Student at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania,1885". AndFarAway. December 23, 2013. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
  6. [6]
    "Photos: Thabat Islambooly, A Kurdish Female Student Went to Study Medicine at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1983". Dabran Platform. 2018. Archived from the original on 2020-12-08.
  7. [7]
    Falcone, Alissa (2017-03-27). "Remembering the Pioneering Women From One of Drexel's Legacy Medical Colleges". DrexelNow. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
  8. [8]
    Alsop, Gulielma Fell (1950). History of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950. Lippincott. p. 177.
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    Verghese, Danielle. "The Graduates". The Triangle. Drexel University. Archived from the original on 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  10. [10]
    "Anandi Gopal Joshi, Kei Okami, Sabat Islambooly". Global Fund For Women. 15 October 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-12-03. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  11. [11]
    Woolf, Christopher; Werman, Marco (2013-07-12). "Historical Photos Depict Women Medical Pioneers". Public Radio International (PRI). OZY Media News. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
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