Thoma (died 1127), also called Habiba of Valencia, was an Arab Andalusian woman scholar known for writing several authoritative books on grammar and jurisprudence.[1][2] Very little is known about her life.

References

  1. Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo (1846). Female Biography: Containing Notices of Distinguished Women, in Different Nations and Ages. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle. p. 474.
  2. Hale, Sarah Josepha (1855). Woman's Record, Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women (2nd ed.). New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 146.


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