# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nabia-abbott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:46:41.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nabia-abbott"
name: "Nabia Abbott"
slug: "nabia-abbott"
description: "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."
tagline: "American scholar of Islam (1897–1981)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Nabia_Abbott_at_the_Oriental_Institute.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1897-01-31"
deathDate: "1981-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.22
  momentum:             0.3896103896103897
  historical:           7.415732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "納比亞·阿伯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نبيهة عبود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabia_Abbott"
    title: "Nabia Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabia_Abbott"
    title: "Nabia Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabia_Abbott"
    title: "Nabia Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabia_Abbott"
    title: "Nabia Abbott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B1%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Эбботт, Набия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%DB%81_%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "نابیہ عبود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2781828"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump