Mahmood Kooria
Biographic Data
| ID | 361196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahmood Kooria |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahmood |
| FAMILY NAME | Kooria |
| SIGNATURE | KOORIA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Piracy
Kunhali Marakkars from the Malabar coast in India are known locally for their extensive naval battles against the Portuguese Estado da ndia in the sixteenth century.From the 1520s until 1599, many members of the family took up arms against the Portuguese not only along the Malabar and Konkan coasts, but also across Coromandel and Gujarat coasts.The Portuguese authorities consistently identified them as corsairs and pirates to be eliminated, while…
Narrating Africa in South Asia
Strengthening the Shafi‘i Madhhab
The supremacy of fiqh in Indonesian, and Southeast Asian, Islam has been widely acclaimed; the subject concerning the affairs of daily life, the core substance of fiqh, has its fertile grounds in Muslims religious ideas and practices. This article presents a historical analysis how the fiqh became popular in the region, which can be traced back to the 19th century. Taking Malay kitab jawi as the main subject of discussion, the shifting of religio…
When Men Get No Share
In matrilineal societies, women had more status, power, and property than men. Most scholars of Islam believed that matrilineal cultures were against the ethos of the religion, which is patrilineal, patrilocal, and patriarchal. But millions of Muslims across the Indian Ocean littoral have been following matriliny for several centuries. It was also one of the most convenient ways to engage in Indian Ocean trade: men could voyage as merchants, sail…
Islamic Law of the Sea
Textual Circulations and Citation Regimes
Before the popularization of the printing press, the circulation of commentarial texts across regional borders, especially of Islamic texts outside of the Middle East, remains largely unexplored. This article focuses on the movement of Islamic manuscripts in the Indian Ocean world, from South and East Africa to South and East Asia. Together with merchants, sailors, travelers, and commodities, the books also traveled long distances, replete with…
Arabic-Malayalam Texts at the British Library
By the late nineteenth century, when printing press was popular across the world. In South Asia, there was increased production and dissemination of Tamil and Malayalam vernacular materials in Arabic script. This intermarriage of local languages with a cosmopolitan script was part of a larger trend of the time, and in South India those were advanced by Arabic-Malayalam and Arabic-Tamil literatures (also referred as Malabari and Arwī respectively)…
Marumakkatta ̄ yam
The centrality of women in economic, social, and even political, spheres has defined the foundational characteristics of the matrilineal/matriarchal/matrifocal cultures prevalent in certain parts of Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Mozambique, Comoros, Kenya, and Somalia. There is no conceptual consensus among scholars to identify the convergences and divergences of this social system. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scholars have grapple…
Islamic Law in Circulation
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, one of the four Sunnī schools of Islamic law. It explores how certain texts shaped, transformed and influenced the juridical thoughts and lives of a significant community over a millennium in and between Asia, Africa and Europe. By examining the processes of the spr…
Encounters of Indic-Abrahamic Religions with Matriliny in Premodern Southern India
This article engages with the matrilineal communities of the Indian Ocean littoral with a focus on the southern Indian context. The matrilineal system was one of the most convenient features in the context of the Indian Ocean trade. In their transregional journeys, maritime itinerants stayed in one place for months or even a year, depending on the variations in monsoon. During this period, they married into the local communities. These marriages …
Matrilineal negotiations with Islam
Millions of Muslims across the Indian Ocean littoral have been following matrilineal systems for several centuries. Both in the past and the present, Muslims in Minangkabau in Indonesia, Negeri Sem
Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Regimes of Diplomacy and Law
This article examines the Bengal–China connections between the Ilyās Shāhī and Ming dynasties in the early fifteenth century across the Bay of Bengal and South China Sea. It traces how law played a central role in the cultural geography and diplomatic vocabulary between individuals and communities in foreign lands, with their shared understanding of two nodal points of law. Diplomatic missions explicate how customary, regional and transregional l…
Introduction
This introductory article to the special issue “Narrating Africa in South Asia” situates the African diaspora in the subcontinent against the broader backdrop of global mobilizations against systemic racism, economic inequality, inaccessible justice, and colonial educational system. The historical and contemporary experiences of Afro-descendants in South Asia are different from their North American and European counterparts on several fronts, eve…
Eastern African doyens in South Asia
This article explores fragmented historical references on African itinerants in South Asia between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries who worked in the coastal regions as Islamic scholars, benefactors, and leaders. Utilizing epigraphic, architectural and textual sources on a few such personalities from Malabar and Bengal, I take a preliminary step towards debunking the exclusive association of Africans in South Asia with slavery and military lab…
Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia
Languages of Law
In premodern monsoon Asia, the legal worlds of major and minor traditions formed a cosmopolis of laws which expanded chronologically and geographically. Without necessarily replacing one another, they all coexisted in a larger domain with fluctuating influences over time and place. In this legal cosmopolis, each tradition had its own aggregation of diverse juridical, linguistic and contextual variants. In South and Southeast Asia, Islam has accor…
Does the Pagan King Reply? Malayalam Documents on the Portuguese Arrival in India
This article is a response to Sebastian Prange's essay in Itinerario 41, no. 1 (2017): 151–173 wherein he presented a ‘virtually unknown manuscript’ on the Portuguese arrival in India as an Indian voice, unheard in the existing historiography. Prange had consulted the English translation of a Malayalam text by John Wye, that the former had assumed to be lost. However its original palm-leaf manuscript ( ōla ) is kept at the British Library. This ō…
Politics, Economy and Islam in ‘Dutch Ponnāni’, Malabar Coast
Ponnāni was a port in southwestern India that resisted the Portuguese incursions in the sixteenth century through the active involvement of religious, mercantile and military elites. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ponnāni was the only place where the Dutch East India Company had commercial access into the kingdom of the Zamorins of Calicut. When the Dutch gained prominence in the coastal belt, this port town became the main cent…
Un agent abyssinien et deux rois indiens à La Mecque
sDurant le premier millénaire de l'islam, la plus grande faculté de droit(madrasa)de La Mecque fut créée par un souverain bengali. Connue sous le nom d'université Banjāliyya, elle devint l'un des instituts les plus importants de la ville. Une deuxième université fut fondée deux décennies plus tard par un autre sultan bengali, né et élevé en hindou. Cet article revient en détail sur la création et l'histoire de ces deux universités et sur les impl…
Uses and Abuses of the Past
The past is the most important element in the meanings of Islam and its law, but the existing literature has rarely addressed the ways in which Muslims make sense of their past. How and why does the past matter so much for Muslims? Within their past, is it the seventh century that matters for them the most, once it comes to Islamic law, or is it some later period? If the latter, why is that so? This article addresses these questions through an et…
Gregory M. Simon. Caged in on the Outside
Using the Past and Bridging the Gap
This article analyses the internal dynamics of online Islamic legal discourses embedded in their offline and multimedia contexts that use of a rich repository of legal texts composed over a period of about a thousand years. Through their vigorous and spirited engagements with these historical texts, contemporary Islamic jurists simultaneously create new digital platforms in mass and social media to disseminate their ideas. In so doing, they perpe…
Texts as Objects of Value and Veneration
For the Islamic communities, the Quran is not the only sacred text or object, but most religious texts is sacred and valuable for their comparative connectivity with the text and contents of the Holy Book. The phenomenological discourses on Islamic textuality are very much centered on Sufism. The legal texts have hardly been acknowledged as part of religious signs, symbols or rituals, whereas those are considered the most important for the majori…
I Find it Very Claustrophobic to be Stuck in a Small Place”
After graduating from Stanford with undergraduate degrees in economics and anthropology, Ho
Matrilineal negotiations with Islam
Millions of Muslims across the Indian Ocean littoral have been following matrilineal systems for several centuries. Both in the past and the present, Muslims in Minangkabau in Indonesia, Negeri Sem
Eastern African doyens in South Asia
This article explores fragmented historical references on African itinerants in South Asia between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries who worked in the coastal regions as Islamic scholars, benefactors, and leaders. Utilizing epigraphic, architectural and textual sources on a few such personalities from Malabar and Bengal, I take a preliminary step towards debunking the exclusive association of Africans in South Asia with slavery and military lab…
The Dutch Mogharaer, Arabic Muḥarrar, and Javanese Law Books
This article examines the claims of Dutch East India Company (VOC) officials in the mid-eighteenth century regarding the Islamic source of a legal code prepared for the local population in Semarang, northeast Java. Although the VOC had encountered local legal cultures in Indonesia since the mid-seventeenth century, it preferred to circumvent those in favour of European laws whenever possible. But in the eighteenth century, VOC officials addressed…
An Abode of Islam under a Hindu King
When Vasco da Gama asked the Zamorin (ruler) of Calicut to expel from his domains all Muslims hailing from Cairo and the Red Sea, the Zamorin rejected it, saying that they were living in his kingdom “as natives, not foreigners.” This was a marker of reciprocal understanding between Muslims and Zamorins. When war broke out with the Portuguese, Muslimintellectuals in the region wrote treatises and delivered sermons in order to mobilize their commun…
Textual Circulations and Citation Regimes
Before the popularization of the printing press, the circulation of commentarial texts across regional borders, especially of Islamic texts outside of the Middle East, remains largely unexplored. This article focuses on the movement of Islamic manuscripts in the Indian Ocean world, from South and East Africa to South and East Asia. Together with merchants, sailors, travelers, and commodities, the books also traveled long distances, replete with…
Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Politics, Economy and Islam in ‘Dutch Ponnāni’, Malabar Coast
Ponnāni was a port in southwestern India that resisted the Portuguese incursions in the sixteenth century through the active involvement of religious, mercantile and military elites. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ponnāni was the only place where the Dutch East India Company had commercial access into the kingdom of the Zamorins of Calicut. When the Dutch gained prominence in the coastal belt, this port town became the main cent…
Using the Past and Bridging the Gap
This article analyses the internal dynamics of online Islamic legal discourses embedded in their offline and multimedia contexts that use of a rich repository of legal texts composed over a period of about a thousand years. Through their vigorous and spirited engagements with these historical texts, contemporary Islamic jurists simultaneously create new digital platforms in mass and social media to disseminate their ideas. In so doing, they perpe…
The Indian Ocean of Law
A sixteenth-century Arabic legal text entitled Tuh fat al-Muh tj, by Ibn ajar al-Haytam, travelled from the Middle East to South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia. It was used in Muslim legal circles as well as in the colonial courts of British India, Zanzibar, and the Dutch East Indies. It was translated into Javanese (Kitab Toehpah), then retranslated into Dutch and interpreted by some colonial lawyers as a legal code of Javanese origin. Wh…
Between the Walls of Archives and Horizons of Imagination
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Dina Afrianty. Women and Sharia Law in Northern Indonesia
Women and Sharia Law in Northern Indonesia: Local NGOs and the Reform of Law in Aceh Dina Afrianty London and New York: Routledge, 2015, viii+194p.One of the earliest legal texts available to us from the Malay world was written in Aceh at the request of its female ruler: Mir?at al-?ullab fi tashil ma?rifat al-a?kam al-shar?iyyat li malik al-wahhab of ?Abd al-Ra? uf al-Sinkili (d. 1693) commissioned by the contemporary sultana Safiyat al-Din Taj a…
An Abode of Islam under a Hindu King
When Vasco da Gama asked the Zamorin (ruler) of Calicut to expel from his domains all Muslims hailing from Cairo and the Red Sea, the Zamorin rejected it, saying that they were living in his kingdom “as natives, not foreigners.” This was a marker of reciprocal understanding between Muslims and Zamorins. When war broke out with the Portuguese, Muslimintellectuals in the region wrote treatises and delivered sermons in order to mobilize their commun…
Uses and Abuses of the Past
The past is the most important element in the meanings of Islam and its law, but the existing literature has rarely addressed the ways in which Muslims make sense of their past. How and why does the past matter so much for Muslims? Within their past, is it the seventh century that matters for them the most, once it comes to Islamic law, or is it some later period? If the latter, why is that so? This article addresses these questions through an et…
Gregory M. Simon. Caged in on the Outside
Using the Past and Bridging the Gap
This article analyses the internal dynamics of online Islamic legal discourses embedded in their offline and multimedia contexts that use of a rich repository of legal texts composed over a period of about a thousand years. Through their vigorous and spirited engagements with these historical texts, contemporary Islamic jurists simultaneously create new digital platforms in mass and social media to disseminate their ideas. In so doing, they perpe…
Texts as Objects of Value and Veneration
For the Islamic communities, the Quran is not the only sacred text or object, but most religious texts is sacred and valuable for their comparative connectivity with the text and contents of the Holy Book. The phenomenological discourses on Islamic textuality are very much centered on Sufism. The legal texts have hardly been acknowledged as part of religious signs, symbols or rituals, whereas those are considered the most important for the majori…
I Find it Very Claustrophobic to be Stuck in a Small Place”
After graduating from Stanford with undergraduate degrees in economics and anthropology, Ho
The Dutch Mogharaer, Arabic Muḥarrar, and Javanese Law Books
This article examines the claims of Dutch East India Company (VOC) officials in the mid-eighteenth century regarding the Islamic source of a legal code prepared for the local population in Semarang, northeast Java. Although the VOC had encountered local legal cultures in Indonesia since the mid-seventeenth century, it preferred to circumvent those in favour of European laws whenever possible. But in the eighteenth century, VOC officials addressed…
The Indian Ocean of Law
A sixteenth-century Arabic legal text entitled Tuh fat al-Muh tj, by Ibn ajar al-Haytam, travelled from the Middle East to South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia. It was used in Muslim legal circles as well as in the colonial courts of British India, Zanzibar, and the Dutch East Indies. It was translated into Javanese (Kitab Toehpah), then retranslated into Dutch and interpreted by some colonial lawyers as a legal code of Javanese origin. Wh…
Languages of Law
In premodern monsoon Asia, the legal worlds of major and minor traditions formed a cosmopolis of laws which expanded chronologically and geographically. Without necessarily replacing one another, they all coexisted in a larger domain with fluctuating influences over time and place. In this legal cosmopolis, each tradition had its own aggregation of diverse juridical, linguistic and contextual variants. In South and Southeast Asia, Islam has accor…
Does the Pagan King Reply? Malayalam Documents on the Portuguese Arrival in India
This article is a response to Sebastian Prange's essay in Itinerario 41, no. 1 (2017): 151–173 wherein he presented a ‘virtually unknown manuscript’ on the Portuguese arrival in India as an Indian voice, unheard in the existing historiography. Prange had consulted the English translation of a Malayalam text by John Wye, that the former had assumed to be lost. However its original palm-leaf manuscript ( ōla ) is kept at the British Library. This ō…
Politics, Economy and Islam in ‘Dutch Ponnāni’, Malabar Coast
Ponnāni was a port in southwestern India that resisted the Portuguese incursions in the sixteenth century through the active involvement of religious, mercantile and military elites. In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ponnāni was the only place where the Dutch East India Company had commercial access into the kingdom of the Zamorins of Calicut. When the Dutch gained prominence in the coastal belt, this port town became the main cent…
Un agent abyssinien et deux rois indiens à La Mecque
sDurant le premier millénaire de l'islam, la plus grande faculté de droit(madrasa)de La Mecque fut créée par un souverain bengali. Connue sous le nom d'université Banjāliyya, elle devint l'un des instituts les plus importants de la ville. Une deuxième université fut fondée deux décennies plus tard par un autre sultan bengali, né et élevé en hindou. Cet article revient en détail sur la création et l'histoire de ces deux universités et sur les impl…
Introduction
This introductory article to the special issue “Narrating Africa in South Asia” situates the African diaspora in the subcontinent against the broader backdrop of global mobilizations against systemic racism, economic inequality, inaccessible justice, and colonial educational system. The historical and contemporary experiences of Afro-descendants in South Asia are different from their North American and European counterparts on several fronts, eve…
Eastern African doyens in South Asia
This article explores fragmented historical references on African itinerants in South Asia between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries who worked in the coastal regions as Islamic scholars, benefactors, and leaders. Utilizing epigraphic, architectural and textual sources on a few such personalities from Malabar and Bengal, I take a preliminary step towards debunking the exclusive association of Africans in South Asia with slavery and military lab…
Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia
Matrilineal negotiations with Islam
Millions of Muslims across the Indian Ocean littoral have been following matrilineal systems for several centuries. Both in the past and the present, Muslims in Minangkabau in Indonesia, Negeri Sem
Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Regimes of Diplomacy and Law
This article examines the Bengal–China connections between the Ilyās Shāhī and Ming dynasties in the early fifteenth century across the Bay of Bengal and South China Sea. It traces how law played a central role in the cultural geography and diplomatic vocabulary between individuals and communities in foreign lands, with their shared understanding of two nodal points of law. Diplomatic missions explicate how customary, regional and transregional l…
Marumakkatta ̄ yam
The centrality of women in economic, social, and even political, spheres has defined the foundational characteristics of the matrilineal/matriarchal/matrifocal cultures prevalent in certain parts of Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Mozambique, Comoros, Kenya, and Somalia. There is no conceptual consensus among scholars to identify the convergences and divergences of this social system. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scholars have grapple…
Islamic Law in Circulation
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, one of the four Sunnī schools of Islamic law. It explores how certain texts shaped, transformed and influenced the juridical thoughts and lives of a significant community over a millennium in and between Asia, Africa and Europe. By examining the processes of the spr…
Encounters of Indic-Abrahamic Religions with Matriliny in Premodern Southern India
This article engages with the matrilineal communities of the Indian Ocean littoral with a focus on the southern Indian context. The matrilineal system was one of the most convenient features in the context of the Indian Ocean trade. In their transregional journeys, maritime itinerants stayed in one place for months or even a year, depending on the variations in monsoon. During this period, they married into the local communities. These marriages …
Narrating Africa in South Asia
Strengthening the Shafi‘i Madhhab
The supremacy of fiqh in Indonesian, and Southeast Asian, Islam has been widely acclaimed; the subject concerning the affairs of daily life, the core substance of fiqh, has its fertile grounds in Muslims religious ideas and practices. This article presents a historical analysis how the fiqh became popular in the region, which can be traced back to the 19th century. Taking Malay kitab jawi as the main subject of discussion, the shifting of religio…
Islam (22 works) · History (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (15 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Asian Studies and History (13 works) · Law (13 works)