Sabat Islambouli Explained

Sabat Islambouli
Birth Date:1867
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]

Medical training

Islambouli was born to a Kurdish–Jewish family.[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]

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.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Khayat . Nicole . Toplumsal Tarih: Sayı: 352 . Kozma . Liat . 2023-04-01 . Vakfı . 352 . tr . Social History.
  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 . 10.1215/15525864-9494108 . 1552-5864.
  3. Web site: Meet The Three Female Medical Students Who Destroyed Gender Norms A Century Ago. Mallika. Rao. 8 April 2014. Huff Post.
  4. Book: Journal of the American Medical Women's Association . 1960 . American Medical Women's Association . . 15 . 1177 . en.
  5. News: December 23, 2013 . UPDATED: Sabat Istanbuly, Female Student at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania,1885 . en-US . AndFarAway . 2017-10-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230105114428/https://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2013/12/23/sabat-istanbuly-female-student-at-the-womens-medical-college-of-pennsylvania1885/ . January 5, 2023.
  6. Web site: 2018 . Photos: Thabat Islambooly, A Kurdish Female Student Went to Study Medicine at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1983 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201208202911/https://www.dabran.org/English/Dreje.aspx?jimare=4209&paiwandidar=10&__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=edf00c184ac86cb170a85843326b9e4259daf378-1606636147-0-AVvz0yuoFKRPtzjt2_mszmQBPePCegwoR9P4Lx6Lff90oia_KoaDtbAWbYuNsZ09h_fUNjD26690tTjt7K1DeAHsOuf1OIiINkFH8BjDd1S0X9ZCcPvOn_TlX7f0-tl64GcHGWHGfrN8_lPQ2eEkCXRJ0Mzmcy7RIXqqKeB-Ds_8CJrwwRfgALXDDKD1rrTkvZfW6hisztIfliUInvqV4YAgT_oa3nNxL3s9hM-3Qhzm3cjDK2LKnFP1DameSGo2KlNQzVpRmf_o2TBUK1f2V6nr9l7mNUtpCxNm1UEN03t1KAWeeaTG51PIXbkFYJzVkoguc6tVy5XFwY6ktDmbOXApZCyyYWmzBoLNE26U-en1wulcmLJXqXzhFzv1F-0esQ . 2020-12-08 . Dabran Platform . dead .
  7. News: Remembering the Pioneering Women From One of Drexel's Legacy Medical Colleges. Falcone. Alissa. 2017-03-27. DrexelNow. 2017-10-13. en.
  8. Book: Alsop, Gulielma Fell . History of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950 . 1950 . Lippincott . 177.
  9. Web site: The Graduates. Verghese. Danielle. The Triangle. Drexel University. 2017-10-12. 2016-04-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20160422094333/https://thetriangle.org/snowball/the-graduates/. dead.
  10. Web site: Anandi Gopal Joshi, Kei Okami, Sabat Islambooly. 15 October 2014. Global Fund For Women. 2017-10-12. 2014-12-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20141203115930/http://ignite.globalfundforwomen.org/be-the-spark/anandi-gopal-joshi-kei-okami-sabat-islambooly. dead.
  11. Web site: Historical Photos Depict Women Medical Pioneers. Woolf. Christopher. Werman. Marco. 2013-07-12. Public Radio International (PRI). OZY Media News. 2017-10-12.

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