| John Cooper | |
| Birth Date: | 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Brighton |
| Death Date: | 1998 |
| Death Place: | outside Reims in northern France |
| Nationality: | British |
| Field: | Islamic Studies |
| Work Institution: | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis Title: | Intellect and Language: A Case Study of the Philosophical Foundations of Shii Legal Methodology |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung |
John (Yahya) Cooper (24 August 1947 - 9 January 1998) was a British Islamic studies scholar and the E. G. Browne lecturer in Persian at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.[1] [2]