  We report on the analysis of an archival observation of part of the {\alpha}
Persei cluster obtained with XMM-Newton. We detected 102 X-ray sources in the
band 0.3-8.0 keV, of which 39 of them are associated with the cluster as
evidenced by appropriate magnitudes and colors from 2MASS photometry. We extend
the X-ray Luminosity Distribution (XLD) for M dwarfs, to add to the XLD found
for hotter dwarfs from spatially extensive surveys of the whole cluster by
ROSAT. Some of the hotter stars are identified as a background, possible
slightly older group of stars at a distance of approximately 500 pc.
