Franz Rosenthal
Franz Rosenthal (August 31, 1914 – April 8, 2003) was the
Background
Rosenthal was born in
After teaching for a year in
Shortly after the infamous
Professor Rosenthal was a prolific and highly accomplished scholar who contributed much to the development of source-critical studies in Arabic in the US. His publications range from a monograph on Humor in Early Islam to a three-volume annotated translation of the
Selected works
- Humor in Early Islam, 1956
- The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, 3 volumes, 1958 – first complete translation in English of "Muqaddimah" by 14th-century Islamic scholar/statesman, Ibn Khaldun
- The Muslim Concept of Freedom Prior to the Nineteenth Century, 1960
- A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic, 1961
- An Aramaic Handbook, 1967
- Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam 1970 (reprinted 2007 with preface by Dimitri Gutas)
- "Sweeter Than Hope": Complaint and Hope in Medieval Islam, 1983
- General Introduction, And, From the Creation to the Flood, translation of History of Tabari, 1985
- The Classical Heritage in Islam, 1994
- Man versus Society in Medieval Islam. Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2015. ISBN 978-90-04-27089-3(eBook) – covering the monographs and articles on the tensions and conflicts between individuals and society as the focus of his study of Muslim social history
Awards and honors
He served as president of the American Oriental Society and was elected to both the American Philosophical Society (1961) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1971).[3][4]
References
- ^ In Memoriam: Franz Rosenthal, 87
- ^ "In Memoriam: Franz Rosenthal, 87". 15 April 2003.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- ^ "Franz Rosenthal". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
- This text is based on the necrologue in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar
- Neue Deutsche Biographie, vol. 22, edited by Historische Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2005), 82–83.
External links
- "Sweeter Than Hope" By Franz Rosenthal
- In Memoriam: Franz Rosenthal
- Franz Rosenthal, 88, Interpreter and Scholar
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