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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 translated a number of works from Arabic and French including:

  • Khairy Shalaby's The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets
  • Jurji Zaydan's The Caliph's Heirs — Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad
  • al-Hariri's The Maqamat (translated into English as Impostures)
  • Cooperson has also taught at the Middlebury School of Arabic and Stanford University.

    In 2021, he won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for translation from Arabic to English.[2]

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  • ^ "Michael Cooperson". Sheikh Zayed Book Award. 2021.

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