Michael Cooperson is an American scholar and translator of Arabic literature.AUC Press profile and interview He is a professor of Arabic at UCLA. He has written two books: Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun and Al-Mamun (Makers Of The Muslim World). He has also translated several works from Arabic and French. Cooperson has also taught at the Middlebury School of Arabic and Stanford University.
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Works
Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun Al-Mamun (Makers Of The Muslim World)
Translations The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture by Abdelfattah Kilito The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets by Khairy Shalaby The Caliph's Heirs — Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad by Jurji Zaydan The Maqamat (titled Impostures in English) by al-Hariri
Awards In 2021, he won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for translation from Arabic to English, for Impostures.
See also List of Arabic-English translators
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