2025年1月30日 · Currently I study the matrilineal and matriarchal Muslim communities of the Indian Ocean littoral from East Africa to South|East Asia. For centuries, the matrilineal system served as a practical means to engage in Indian Ocean trade: men could travel as traders, sailors, and itinerants, while women controlled households and broader social spheres.

Malayalam Documents on the Portuguese Arrival in India. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 74 (1), 75-103.

Mahmood Kooria is a social scientist and historian from Kerala, India. He is a professor of Indian Ocean history at the Department of History University of Edinburgh in Scotland and since the early 2010s, he emerged "as a pioneer in the scholarship of Islam in the Indian Ocean."

Prof. Mahmood Kooria is one of the world’s leading scholars of Indian Ocean Islam, or Maritime Islam generally, particularly in the pre-modern and early modern periods. He is an expert in Arabic and Malayalam texts of many kinds, with a special interest in the corpus of Shafi‘i legal thought produced in or for scholars and readers in Kerala.

Analysing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in Circulation focuses on Shāfiʿīsm, …

2013年8月16日 · PhD in Global History, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cosmopolis of Law: Islamic Legal Ideas and Texts across the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean Worlds, Leiden University. Award Date: 14 Dec 2016.

Apart from the Indian Ocean History before 1750 CE, I am also interested in medieval and early modern South Asia, African intellectuals in Asia, legal Ideas and texts, and religious encounters.

I am a lecturer in the History of the Indian Ocean World at the Department of History, University of Edinburgh, and a guest researcher at the University of Bergen (Norway). Earlier I held teaching and research positions at Leiden University (the Netherlands), Ashoka University (India), National Islamic University Jakarta (Indonesia),...see more.

Mahmood Kooria is Assistant Professor of the History Department of Ashoka University. Earlier he was a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), African Studies...

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