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Saturday, April 19, 2003

# Posted 11:32 AM by Patrick Belton  

ANOTHER OF THE HONORABLE MEN PASSES: Sterling Professor Emeritus Franz Rosenthal passed away this week in Branford. Professor Rosenthal, who fled Berlin after Kristallnacht, then became a U.S. citizen and contributed his skills as an Arabist to his new country and to the OSS during the Second World War.

Returning to the academy - and luckily for Yale, to New Haven - there was no portion of Arabic studies he did not touch, from a monograph on "Humor in Early Islam"(later works dealt with "Gambling in Islam" and "The Herb: Hashish Versus Medieval Muslim Society") to meaty, comprehensively annotated translations of Ibn Khaldun's Muwaddimah and the histories of medieval historian at-Tabari.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhirajioon. May Allah give him the reward of his labors.
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