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Tahera Qutbuddin
Indian Professor of Arabic (born 1964)
Tahera Qutbuddin (born 1964, Mumbai) is the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford.
A Guggenheim Fellow (2020) and a winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2021, she is best known for her works on the teachings of Imam Ali, Arabic oratory, and the usage of Arabic in India, especially in the Dawoodi Bohra Tayyibi tradition.
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Life
Tahera Qutbuddin was born in Mumbai in 1964 in a Dawoodi Bohra family. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, a leader of the Bohra community, was her uncle. She attended Villa Theresa High School and Sophia College for Women, where she completed her secondary education in 1984.
Qutbuddin learned Arabic from her father Khuzaima Qutbuddin.
She received a bachelor's degree (1988) and a tamhidi magister (1990) from the Ain Shams University, Cairo, followed by master's (1994) and doctoral degrees from Harvard University (1999), where her advisor was Wolfhart