Abdelfattah Kilito, professor in the department of French at Muhammad V University in Rabat, Morocco, has published extensively on Arabic literature. He has been a visiting scholar at the Ecole des Hautcs Etudes en Science Sociales, the College de France, and Harvard University. In I 989 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Maroc.
Michael Cooperson teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles and is the author of Classic Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun.
Cooperson's is a bold translation. . . . This is the most important introduction to Arabic culture we have in any language, a book of riqor, intelligence, elegance, and uncanny charm.-- "Michael Beard, Co-editor of Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures"
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