Description: Captures the achievements of this Sufi thinker and founder of gnostic hurufism.
Brief description: Michael Cooperson is Associate Professor of Arabic at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophet in the Age of al-Ma'mun.
Review Quotes: "This book is a good read and provides the reader with a balanced and accurate account of the caliph al-Ma'mum"-- "John Nawas - Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven"