Jan 30, 2025 · 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 …

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 …

Mahmood Kooria & Sanne Ravensbergen Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped …

Malayalam Documents on the Portuguese Arrival in India.

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 …

I am a historian affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and Ashoka University in India. I was born and brought up in a small village in Kerala, southwest India. For several years now, …

Mahmood Kooria is General Secretary of the I-SHORE. He holds research positions at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and University of Bergen (Norway) and is a Visiting Faculty at …

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 …

Jan 10, 2025 · Introducing Dr Mahmood Kooria, lecturer and renowned expert in the History of the Indian Ocean World at Edinburgh. He is the winner of the prestigious Infosys Prize in …

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 …