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Michael Cooperson

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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 also translated a number of works from Arabic and French. Cooperson has also taught at the Middlebury School of Arabic and Stanford University.

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Works

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  • Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun
  • Al-Mamun (Makers Of The Muslim World)

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Awards

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

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References

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