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 (Makers Of The Muslim World)''. He has translated a number of works from Arabic and French including:
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Abdelfattah Kilito
Abdelfattah Kilito ( ar, عبد الفتاح كيليطو; born 10 April 1945, in Rabat) is a Moroccan writer. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines such as ''Poétique'' and ''Stud ...
's ''The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture''
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Khairy Shalaby
Khairy Shalaby (خيري شلبي) (January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011)Jurji Zaydan's ''The Caliph's Heirs — Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad''
Cooperson has also taught at the Middlebury School of Arabic and
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...