Sabat Islambouli
Islambouli (right) with Japanese physician Kei Okami (centre) and Indian physician Anandi Gopal Joshi (left), 10 October 1885
Born1867
Died1941 (aged 73–74)
Alma materWoman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
OccupationPhysician

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.[5][6] She studied at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in the USA 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

  1. ↑ Khayat, Nicole; Kozma, Liat (2023-04-01). Toplumsal Tarih: Sayı: 352 [Social History] (in Turkish). Vol. 352. Vakfı.
  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.
  3. ↑ Rao, Mallika (8 April 2014). "Meet The Three Female Medical Students Who Destroyed Gender Norms A Century Ago" – via Huff Post.
  4. ↑ 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)
  5. 1 2 3 "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. ↑ "Photos: Thabat Islambooly, A Kurdish Female Student Went to Study Medicine at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1983". Dabran Platform. 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. 1 2 Falcone, Alissa (2017-03-27). "Remembering the Pioneering Women From One of Drexel's Legacy Medical Colleges". DrexelNow. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
  8. ↑ Alsop, Gulielma Fell (1950). History of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950. Lippincott. p. 177.
  9. ↑ Verghese, Danielle. "The Graduates". The Triangle. Drexel University. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  10. ↑ "Anandi Gopal Joshi, Kei Okami, Sabat Islambooly". Global Fund For Women. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  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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