Tahera Qutbuddin

Tahera Qutbuddin
Born1964 (age 59–60)
Alma materAin Shams University, Harvard University
AwardsSheikh Zayed Book Award (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsArabic literature, oratory
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago, University of Oxford
Thesis Al-Mua̓yyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: Founder of a new tradition of Fatimid Dawa poetry  (1999)
Doctoral advisorWolfhart 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 Arabic oratory and the usage of Arabic in India, especially in the Dawoodi Bohra tradition.