Mahmood Kooria

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. His latest book is Islamic Law in Circulation published in the series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.
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 He was also affiliated to the Dutch Institute in Rabat, Morocco between 2016 and 2018.
Awards
* Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project ‘Matriarchal Islam: Gendering Sharia in the Indian Ocean World’.
* Transregional Junior Research Scholar Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, USA for his project "Afro-Asia-Arab Triangle: Indian Ocean Muslims and the ‘Peripheral Histories’ of Islamic Law".
* Fellowships from the European Union's Erasmus Programme, and the Cosmopolis Program of Leiden University and the National Archive, the Hague.
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.
As co-editor
*With Michael N. Pearson, Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018).
*With Sanne Ravensbergen, Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean: Texts, Ideas and Practices (New York: Routledge, 2022).
*With Sanne Ravensbergen, "The Indian Ocean of Law: Hybridity and Space." Special Issue: Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions

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