Mahmood Kooria

Mahmood Kooria, in full Mahmood Kooriadathodi, (born 8 April 1988) is an Indian historian and academic known for his studies on Indian Ocean culture, and Islamic legal and intellectual histories.[1] He is generally considered as one of the reputed historians of Kerala.[2] He currently lives in Leiden, the Netherlands.[3]

Mahmood Kooria
Mahmood Kooria in December, 2018
Born
Mahmood Kooriadathodi

(1988-04-08) 8 April 1988
Malappuram district, Kerala
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Historian
  • Academic
Notable work
  • Cosmopolis of law: Islamic legal ideas and texts across the Indian Ocean and Eastern Mediterranean Worlds (2016, doctoral)
  • Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (co-editor, 2018)
Websitehttp://mahmoodkooria.com/

Kooria is best known as the co-editor of Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region, published in 2017 by Oxford University Press.[4]

Life

Kooria was born on 8 April 1988 in Puzhakkattiri, near Perinthalmanna in Kerala.[5] He completed his initial studies from Darul Huda Islamic University, Chemmad (Kerala) and University of Calicut (Kerala) and M.A. and M.Phil. in Ancient Indian History (2009-12) at Jawaharlal Nehru University.[6][7]

Kooria finished his doctoral studies at 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 [8][5] and a postdoctoral fellow at the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) project "Uses of the Past: Understanding Sharia".[5] He was also affiliated to the Dutch Institute in Rabat, Morocco between 2016 and 2018.[3]

Awards
  • Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project ‘Matriarchal Islam: Gendering Sharia in the Indian Ocean World’.[9]
  • 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".[10][11]
  • Fellowships from the European Union's Erasmus Programme, and the Cosmopolis Program of Leiden University and the National Archive, the Hague.[12]

Publications

As co-editor
  • With Michael N. Pearson, Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.[5]
  • With Sanne Ravensbergen, "The Indian Ocean of Law: Hybridity and Space." Special Issue: Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions[13]

Articles
  • Politics, Economy and Islam in ‘Dutch Ponnāni’, Malabar Coast, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62 (1), 1-34.
  • Languages of Law: Legal Cosmopolis and its Arabic and Malay Microcosms, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 29 (4),
  • Using the Past and Bridging the Gap: Premodern Islamic Legal Texts in New Media, Law and History Review 36 (4), 993-1019.
  • Does the Pagan King Reply? Malayalam Palm-leaf Documents on the Portuguese Arrival in India, Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions 43 (3), .
  • Early Dutch Encounters with Islamic Law: The Text and Translation of Mogharaer Code or Semarang Compendium, Indonesia, 53-87
  • The Dutch Mogharaer, Arabic Muḥarrar, and Javanese Law Books: A VOC Experiment with Muslim Law in Java, 1747–1767. Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions 42 (2), 202-219.
  • Uses and Abuses of the Past: An Ethno-History of Islamic Legal Texts, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 7(2): 313–338.
  • Words of ʿAjam in the World of Arab: Translation and Translator in Early Islamic Judicial Procedure.
    • In: Intisar Rabb and Abigail Balbale (Eds.) Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • A Malayalam War-Song on the Portuguese-Dutch Battle, 1663.
    • In: Mahmood Kooria and Michael Pearson (Eds.) Malabar in the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 141-171.
  • Texts as Objects of Value and Veneration, Sociology of Islam 6(1): 60–83.
  • An Abode of Islam under a Hindu King: Circuitous Imagination of Kingdoms among Muslims of Sixteenth-Century Malabar, The Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 1(1): 89-109.
  • Two ‘Cultural Translators’ of Islamic Law and German East Africa, Rechtsgeshichte: Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History 24(2), 190-214.

References
  1. S, Shihabudeen Kunju, ed. (7 August 2019). "Indian Academic Secures Rs 2 Crore Research Grant In The Netherlands". NDTV. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/break-conventions-vc-exhorts-historians-researchers/article26435832.ece
  3. http://keralaliteraturefestival.com/speakers_more.aspx?id=NTM5
  4. Post-Graduate Syllabus (MG University)
  5. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/mahmood-kooriadathodi/publications#tab-2
  6. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/mahmood-kooriadathodi/publications#tab-2
  7. "Mahmood Kooria". mahmoodkooria.com. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  8. https://www.manoramaonline.com/education/achievers/2019/08/20/success-story-of-dr-mahmood-kooria.html
  9. "Veni grant for Mahmood Kooriadathodi: Can Islam be Matriarchal?". Leiden University. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  10. "Mahmood Kooriadathodi". Social Science Research Council. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  11. "Congratulations! – SSRC Grant Awarded to Mahmood Kooria – Uses of the past". Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  12. "Cosmopolis". Leiden University. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  13. "Itinerario: Volume 42 - The Indian Ocean of Law: Hybridity and Space". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
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