Nabilah Lubis, an Indonesian philologist, writer, translator and lecturer, died on February 28, 2026, in Cairo, Egypt, at the age of 83.
Born Nabilah ‘Abdel Fattah in Cairo on March 14, 1942, she later took the name Nabilah Lubis after marrying Burhanuddin Umar Lubis, a Batak Mandailing man from Medan. She completed her doctoral education at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic Institute in 1992 and became the first female doctorate at IAIN Jakarta.
In 1994, Quraish Shihab, then chancellor of IAIN Jakarta, appointed her dean of the Faculty of Adab and Humanities.
Nabilah Lubis (born Nabilah ‘Abdel Fattah, Arabic: نبيلة عبد الفتاح, romanized: Nabīlah ʻAbd al-Fattaḥ, March 14, 1942 – February 28, 2026) was an Indonesian philologist, writer, translator and lecturer. Nabilah was an Egyptian who was married by a Batak Mandailing man from Medan named Burhanuddin Umar Lubis, so she changed her last name to Nabilah Lubis.