Michael Cooperson

Michael Cooperson is an American scholar and translator of Arabic literature. ^[1] 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 (Makers Of The Muslim World). 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.

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. ^[2]

See also

• List of Arabic-English translators

References

1. AUC Press profile and interview
2. "Michael Cooperson". Sheikh Zayed Book Award. 2021.