Nabilah Lubis (born Nabilah ‘Abdel Fattah, ar-at, نبيلة عبد الفتاح, Nabīlah ʻAbd al-Fattaḥ, on March 14, 1942) is an Indonesian
philologist
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
, writer, translator and lecturer. Nabilah is an
Egyptian woman who was married by a
Batak Mandailing man from
Medan
Medan (; English: ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, as well as a regional hub and financial centre of Sumatra. According to the National Development Planning Agency, Medan is one of the four mai ...
named
Burhanuddin Umar Lubis, so she changed her last name to Nabilah Lubis.
Career
After Lubis completed her doctoral education at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic Institute (IAIN Jakarta,
Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta
State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta ( Indonesian: Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Arabic: جامعة شريف هداية الله الإسلامية الحكومية جاكرتا) is a public university in I ...
) in 1992, she became the first female doctorate at IAIN Jakarta. Two years later, in 1994, professor
Quraish Shihab as chancellor of IAIN Jakarta appointed her as Dean of the Faculty of Adab and Humanities. Lubis retired from her position as Professor at the Faculty of Adab and Humanities at UIN Jakarta in 2007. She is the Expert Council of the
Muslimat Nahdlatul Ulama for the period 2016–2021 with
Sinta Nuriyah
Sinta Nuriyah Wahid (also Sinta Wahid; 8 March 1948) is the widow of former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. She was First Lady of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001.
Biography
Sinta was born in the Jombang Regency in 1948, the eldest daugh ...
Wahid and eight other people.
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Egyptian emigrants to Indonesia
Indonesian people of Egyptian descent
Mandailing people
Indonesian Muslims
Academics from Cairo
Cairo University alumni
Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta alumni
Leiden University alumni
1942 births
Living people