Tahera Qutbuddin | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
| Alma mater | Ain Shams University, Harvard University |
| Awards | Sheikh Zayed Book Award (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Arabic literature, oratory |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Al-Mua̓yyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: Founder of a new tradition of Fatimid Dawa poetry (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wolfhart Heinrichs |
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.