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Franz Rosenthal

Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003) was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Semitic Studies at Yale University and a scholar of Arabic literature and Islam. Professor Rosenthal was a prolific scholar whose publications ranged from this monograph on Humor in Early Islam to a three-volume annotated translation of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun to a Grammar of Biblical Aramaic.