# Michael Cooperson

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'''Michael Cooperson''' is an American scholar and translator of [Arabic literature](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Middlebury_College_Language_Schools) of Arabic and [Stanford University](/source/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](/source/Abdelfattah_Kilito)
* ''The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets'' by [Khairy Shalaby](/source/Khairy_Shalaby)
* ''The Caliph's Heirs — Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad'' by [Jurji Zaydan](/source/Jurji_Zaydan)
* ''[The Maqamat](/source/Maqamat_al-Hariri)'' (titled ''Impostures'' in English) by [al-Hariri](/source/al-Hariri_of_Basra)

==Awards==
In 2021, he won the [Sheikh Zayed Book Award](/source/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](/source/List_of_Arabic-English_translators) 

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