Michael Cooperson

'''Michael Cooperson''' is an American scholar and translator of Arabic literature.<ref>[http://www.aucpress.com/t-eNewsletter-CoopersonTranslator-December2010.aspx?template=template_enewsletter AUC Press profile and interview]</ref> 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.

==Bibliography==

=== 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''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/previous.editions/winners/michaelcooperson.aspx?year=2021 |title=Michael Cooperson |website=Sheikh Zayed Book Award |date=2021 }}</ref>

==See also== * List of Arabic-English translators

==References== {{reflist}}

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