Mahmood Kooria

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Mahmood Kooria in December, 2018
Born
Mahmood Kooriadathodi

(1988-04-08) 8 April 1988 (age 34)
Nationality Indian
Alma mater
OccupationHistorian
Website http://mahmoodkooria.com/

Mahmood Kooria, (full name Mahmood Kooriadathodi, born 8 April 1988) is an Indian historian who writes on Indian Ocean culture, and Islamic legal and intellectual histories. [1] [2] His latest book is Islamic Law in Circulation published in the series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. [3]

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Life

Kooria finished his doctoral studies at the Institute for History, Leiden University on the circulation of Islamic legal texts across the Indian Ocean and Eastern Mediterranean worlds. He was a joint research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden [4] He was also affiliated to the Dutch Institute in Rabat, Morocco between 2016 and 2018. [5]

Awards

Publications

Book

Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). In the series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. [9]

As co-editor

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  2. "Break conventions, VC exhorts historians, researchers". The Hindu. 5 March 2019.
  3. Kooria, Mahmood. "Islamic Law in Circulation". https://www.cambridge.org/ . Cambrdige University Press. Retrieved 14 September 2022.{{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  4. "ഈ മലയാളിക്ക് ഡച്ച് സർക്കാരിൽനിന്നു ലഭിച്ചത് രണ്ടു കോടി രൂപയുടെ ഫെലോഷിപ്!".
  5. http://keralaliteraturefestival.com/speakers_more.aspx?id=NTM5
  6. "Veni grant for Mahmood Kooriadathodi: Can Islam be Matriarchal?". Leiden University. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  7. "Congratulations! – SSRC Grant Awarded to Mahmood Kooria – Uses of the past" . Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  8. "Cosmopolis". Leiden University. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
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