Michael Cooperson is an American scholar and translator of

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...

. He is professor of Arabic at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

. 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 Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

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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 Khairy Shalaby (; January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011)Jurji Zaydan Jurji Zaydan (, ; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine '' Al-Hilal'', which he used to serialize his twenty three historical novels. H ...

* '' The Maqamat'' (titled ''Impostures'' in English) by

al-Hariri Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004. Hariri headed five cabinets during his tenu ...

Awards

In 2021, he won the

Sheikh Zayed Book Award The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is a literary award presented yearly to writers, intellectuals, publishers whose writings and scholarly publications contributed to Arab cultural, literary and social life. The award has been described as “the Arab ...

for translation from Arabic to English, for ''Impostures''.

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American biographers American male biographers 21st-century American translators Arabic–English translators Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of California Near Eastern Languages and Cultures faculty {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub American people of Greek descent

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