Michael Cooperson

Michael Cooperson is an American scholar and translator of Arabic literature. He is a 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 several works from Arabic and French. Cooperson has also taught at the Middlebury School of Arabic and Stanford University.