Michael Cooperson
Michael Cooperson is an American scholar and translator of Arabic literature. He is 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 . He has also translated a number of works from Arabic and French. Cooperson has also taught at the Middlebury School of Arabic and Stanford University.
Works
- Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun
- ''Al-Mamun ''
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 by al-Hariri
Awards