Near Eastern Languages and Civilization professor emeritus Franz Rosenthal, a noted Arab scholar and esteemed mentor, died April 8 in Branford, Conn., after a battle with cancer. He was 88 years old.

Franz Rosenthal, 88, an Arab scholar who taught Near Eastern languages and civilization at Yale University from 1956 to 1985, died of cancer April 8 in Branford, Conn. Born in Berlin, he earned his ...

Rosenthal knew what caused the rise and fall of Islamic (or most any) polity. He was a translator in to English, for one thing, of Ibn Khaldun’s magnificent and groundbreaking 14th century historical ...

Translation of: Kitāb al-ʻibar. Muqaddimah. "An abridgment of the three-volume edition translated, and with an introduction by Franz Rosenthal, published as Bollingen Series XLIII."--t.p. verso. siris ...